User's Guide to SWMM, 10th Ed.
(July 2005)

The cost of urban water management and the penalties of mismanagement are severe enough to require models based on an ever-increasing knowledge of the processes and impacts of urban water management. Such computer models are used to evaluate, analyze and manage problems where the quantity and quality of urban storm water runoff, sanitary flows and combined sewer overflows are to be estimated. We are lucky to continue to benefit from the USEPA's research on and models of the occurrence, movement, transformation, impact, and control of urban environmental water contaminants. One of the first of such models is the EPA Storm Water Management Model (SWMM).

This guide serve as updated and more narrowly focused version of the two 1988 user's manuals for SWMM, originally written by Wayne Huber, Bob Dickinson, Larry Roesner and John Aldrich. The guide presents details on the the Rain, Temperature, Runoff, Extran, Transport, Storage Treatment and Combine modules. It relates to the current (SWMM4.4h) program. Text has been totally rearranged and changed (mostly simplified and enhanced for users as opposed to programmers). Detailed instructions on the use of the model are given as before, but cautions known to the writer have been added. Material that was deemed outdated, or irrelevant to a PC environment, or relevant only to FORTRAN programmers, has been deleted. New exercises and examples have been added, and terminology has been harmonized across all modules.

This manual has been reduced in size from the original set of 2 manuals to a single, handy, hard-cover,  6" x 9" format. It has also been fully indexed for quick reference.

Original EPA manuals are still available, of course.

Getting Started with PCSWMM chapters

For those with earlier versions of the User's Guide to SWMM, chapters 6, 11, and 13 have been updated in the latest version (10th) to reflect more recent changes in PCSWMM 2004 / 2005. They are also available for download from the Getting Started section under PCSWMM / Technical Support.

Pricing

The User's Guide to SWMM (catalog # R224) is available for US$149.95 (CDN$149.95) plus shipping and handling. Multiple volume sets are available at discounted prices. We offer same-day shipping.