GIBc8—Stormwater Management

Wayne Ding

Green Building Consultant

AECOM Beijing Office

LEEDuser Basic Member

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May 20, 2011

The credit requires "the percentile rainfall event is the total rainfall on a given day in the record that is greater than or equal to X percent of all rainfall events over a 20-to 40+-year period". Can anybody explain to me what this means? Thanks Wayne

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Eliot Allen

LEED AP-ND, Principal

Criterion Planners

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Thu, 06/02/2011 - 22:22

A detailed description of the requirement appears in the ND Reference Guide. In practioce, the requirement allows a project team to select the amount of rainfall that will be managed on-site and not discharged to a community stormwater system. If a project desires to manage the maximum amount of stormwater, it would select the 95th percentile event. This mean the quantity of rainfall to be managed is the 24-hour rainfall amount equal or greater than 95% of all rainfall events over the past 20-40 years. The number of years used should correspond to the length of local rainfall records.