STORMWATER ENGINEERING HANDBOOK – VOLUME 1: From hydrology and rainfall analysis, through drainage infrastructure and hydraulic design, to flood management

STORMWATER ENGINEERING HANDBOOK – VOLUME 1

Understand the water before you design the drainage system.

Stormwater engineering begins with rainfall—but reliable drainage design requires far more than knowing how much rain falls.

Stormwater Engineering Handbook – Volume 1 provides a comprehensive foundation in the hydrology, rainfall analysis, runoff estimation, infiltration, and urban catchment modeling principles required for modern stormwater engineering.
Beginning with the fundamentals of stormwater engineering, the book develops a logical progression from the hydrologic cycle and catchment processes through rainfall measurement, design rainfall, IDF analysis, rainfall-runoff relationships, peak-flow estimation, hydrograph development, infiltration, and urban hydrologic modeling.

The volume covers: fundamentals of stormwater engineering; urban and natural hydrologic processes; catchment and sub-catchment delineation; GIS-based drainage basin analysis; rainfall data collection and quality control; rainfall depth, intensity, duration and frequency; IDF curves and design storms; extreme rainfall and return-period analysis; rainfall-runoff relationships; rainfall excess and hydrologic losses; Rational Method peak-flow estimation; unit hydrographs and synthetic hydrographs; hydrograph transformation and convolution; infiltration and soil-water processes; Horton and Green-Ampt infiltration methods; infiltration testing; lumped, semi-distributed and distributed hydrologic models; continuous urban catchment simulation; model calibration and validation; sensitivity and uncertainty analysis. The book emphasizes the connection between theory, calculation, modeling, and engineering judgment . It recognizes that a reliable stormwater solution depends on the quality of rainfall data, catchment delineation, soil characterization, runoff assumptions, model structure, calibration, validation, and interpretation.

Particularly valuable for civil, environmental, water-resources, drainage, transportation, municipal, and consulting engineers, the book also provides a useful reference for planners, researchers, academics, students, and infrastructure professionals.

Modern stormwater engineering is no longer limited to rapidly moving water away from cities. It increasingly seeks to avoid, reduce, infiltrate, store, treat, reuse, convey, and safely discharge stormwater while improving flood resilience, water security, environmental performance, and long-term infrastructure reliability.

This volume establishes the hydrologic foundation for that integrated approach and prepares the reader for the drainage planning, hydraulic design, storage, flood management, green infrastructure, water-quality, modeling, climate-resilience, and smart-stormwater topics developed throughout the broader handbook.

A practical foundation for understanding rainfall, runoff, catchments and the future of stormwater engineering.
From rainfall analysis to runoff hydrographs.
From infiltration to urban hydrologic models.
From fundamental principles to engineering practice.