Example 5 - Marsha Shart Freeway Drainage

Marsha Sharp Freeway drainage analysis

Objective

This example documents a forensic study to investigate the cause of frequent flooding of a freeway in an urban area.

Situation

Supporting Data Files

The supporting files are extensive.

There is a collection for a particular storm, a collection of design storms, a collection for historical storms, and a validation collection to match SWMM response to an earlier design model.

MSF-Study This is the collection of files.

Simulation Results

Interpretation

References

1. Rainwater, K., Cleveland, T., Moya, M., Kronkowsky, B. C. ”Hydrologic and Hydraulic Evaluation of Stormwater Drainage of the Marsha Sharp Freeway near Texas Tech University.” Texas Department of Transportation.