Client: Paphos Sewerage Board
Other Partners: Melios Agathaggelou (Surveyor Engineer)
The scope of the study was the comprehensive stormwater management of an area of 400 ha at the east part of Paphos Municipality. The study concerned the conduction of a hydrological and hydraulic study for the design of the appropriate stormwater drainage system, giving priority to the main road network of the study area.
For the implementation of the objectives of the Contract, the following specific activities were implemented:
- Site visit to the study area with the aim of fully understanding the hydrological conditions and the operation of the existing stormwater network.
- Surveying of the existing infrastructure.
- Data collection.
- Hydrological and hydraulic analysis using SWMM software (United States Environmental Protection Agency), which is a dynamic rainfall-runoff simulation model used for analyzing individual or continuous rainfall events. This analysis was performed both for the existing and the proposed conditions and included the following:
- Development of rainfall time series (hypothetical hydrograph) based on the rainfall curves of the most representative Meteorological Station (MS) for events with return periods of 1 in 5 years and 1 in 10 years.
- Formation of the existing stormwater drainage system into SWMM software according to the topographical survey.
- Delineation of the sub-catchments for each pipe of the drainage system.
- Hydrological and hydraulic simulation of the existing stormwater network, resulting the hydraulic behavior of the network.
- Reconduction of the hydrological and hydraulic simulations for the sizing of the proposed stormwater network.
- Recommendations for the implementation phases of the proposed works and approximate cost estimation of the proposed infrastructure.
