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NC-2009 SSc6.2:Stormwater Design—Quality Control

Capturing rainwater and discharge to the public sewer

The FAQ of SSc6.2 (http://www.leeduser.com/credit/NC-2009/SSc6.2#sthash.3UFoAJvd.dpuf) suggests that capturing the rainwater into tanks and discharging it into the public sewers after the rainstorm is acceptable way for meeting SS6.2 requirements as follows: “Is it an acceptable strategy to capture the rainwater into tanks and discharge it into the public sewers after the rainstorm reducing the peak discharge? This is a common strategy for reducing peak rate, which will help you comply with SSc6.1, but you'll need to add onsite reuse or infiltration to meet SSc6.2 requirements.” However considering the credit’s intent, i.e. “To limit disruption of natural hydrology by reducing impervious cover, increasing on-site infiltration, reducing or eliminating pollution from stormwater runoff and eliminating comtaminants, we feel that the mention strategy does not reduce the runoff but only delay the runoff to the latter time and the pollutions collected by the runoff still be released to the public sewer which should not meet the credit’s intent. In fact, We are interested to deploy this strategy for our project in order to comply with SSc6.1 but we still have some doubt. Could anyone affirm that this strategy help meet the SSc6.1 requirements.

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Wed, 06/12/2013 - 01:52

Slow release of stormwater will put you on your way to solving 6.1, but you will need to do some form of treatment in order to meet 6.2. You will need to implement some form of volume control as well. The slow release solves peak rate only, not volume.

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 03:50

Hi Michael, Thank you for the clarification. Please advise whether I am correct that the intent of SSc6.1 is to reduce the "Peak" discharge to natural hydrology and public sewer, not the total volume discharge. Therefore, the capturing and slow releasing can help achieve the credit requirement.

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 11:26

That is a fancy way of saying your post-development runoff can not exceed the pre-development runoff. 6.1 deals with both peak rate AND volume. You need to reduce the rate of runoff (a slow release), and reduce the volume (the quantity), through infiltration, reuse, or some other means. You are heading in the reight direction with the peak rate, you now need to manage volume. If you have decent infiltration rates, you can do some sort of pre-fab arch system (StormTech, Cultec, etc) which will allow for infiltration into the soil below the system.

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