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SSc 6.1 & 6.2 Quantity and Quality control

CS-2009 SSc6.1:Stormwater Design—Quantity Control
posted by  Victor DaCosta  on 

Morning, I’m starting with calculations in SS credit 6.1 and 6.2 and I have a question: We are implementing rainwater recapture on our project for irrigation and toilet flushes.

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Sat Aug 26, 2017, 10:12 pm

Using a water table tank as a retaining method for compliance

CS-2009 SSc6.1:Stormwater Design—Quantity Control
posted by  Gabriela Hernández Castillo  on 

Our project is capturing rainwater and sending it to a water table tank (I don't know if this is the correct term, it is the tank that recieves water from the water table below foundations). The t

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Mon Oct 10, 2011, 7:49 pm

Pond use outside LEED boundary

CS-2009 SSc6.1:Stormwater Design—Quantity Control
posted by  Brian Wolfe  on 

Is it acceptable to utilize an existing detention pond that is outside the proposed LEED boundary? The stormwater runoff will be piped under the existing road to the pond.

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Sun Aug 26, 2012, 8:47 pm

Pump up stored rainwater to local drainage system

CS-2009 SSc6.1:Stormwater Design—Quantity Control
posted by  Noriko Nagazumi  on 

Our project has a big rainwater collecting tank which has enough capacity to store 2-24hr design storm, but the tank doesn't have function of infiltration and all the stored rainwater will be pumpe

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Thu Aug 30, 2012, 8:06 pm

Discharging the rainwater to municipality facilities.

CS-2009 SSc6.1:Stormwater Design—Quantity Control
posted by  mohamed magdy  on 

Does discharging the collected rainwater to municipality facilities will help with achieving the requirements for credit 6.1 & 6.2? we are following Case1 - path 1, we will reclaim the rainwat

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Fri Aug 19, 2016, 5:49 am

Runoff rate and runoff volume definition

CS-2009 SSc6.1:Stormwater Design—Quantity Control
posted by  Noriko Nagazumi  on 

Michael, Our local regulations usually require rainwater collection facilities that only shift the total runoff between storms instead of infiltrating or reusing the rainwater. Is there a common

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Wed Oct 28, 2015, 11:32 am

Rational Method

CS-2009 SSc6.1:Stormwater Design—Quantity Control
posted by  MKK LEED  on 

Good Morning, I’m starting with calculations in SS credit 6.1. But I have a question: Can I use the runoff data of the watershed where is located the project?

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Arcadis North America
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Wed Jul 9, 2014, 1:48 pm

Retention tank

CS-2009 SSc6.1:Stormwater Design—Quantity Control
posted by  Anna Korinkova  on 

Hi all, We are working on a project in Prague with imperviousness >50% (Case 2).

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Emerald Built Environments
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Thu Jan 23, 2014, 9:57 am

Calculation of drawdown rate Qr

CS-2009 SSc6.1:Stormwater Design—Quantity Control
posted by  Therese Malm  on 

How is design storm interval determined? I looked into the LEED BD+C Reference Guide on page 97 in the example (last calculation) at the top of the page.

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Mon Jan 20, 2014, 9:12 pm

Retaining rainwater for future uses

CS-2009 SSc6.1:Stormwater Design—Quantity Control
posted by  Gabriela Hernández Castillo  on 

Will capturing all rainwater and keep it in a tank for future uses such as cooling towers and irrigation? Our project will not infiltrate it but reuse it instead.

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SERA Architects
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Wed May 11, 2011, 4:30 pm