Overview

music – “Model for Urban Stormwater Improvement Conceptualisation” – is designed to help urban stormwater professionals visualise possible strategies to tackle urban stormwater hydrology and pollution impacts. 

music provides the ability to simulate both quantity and quality of runoff from catchments ranging from a single house block up to many square kilometres, and then simulate and measure the effect of a wide range of SUDS treatment measures (such as bioretention, infiltration, wetlands, filter strips and swales) on the quantity and quality of runoff downstream.

music is an aid to decision-making. It enables users to understand pollutant removal effectiveness, and flow, of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) to ensure they are appropriate for their catchments. music will simulate the performance of a group of stormwater management measures, configured in series or in parallel to form a “treatment train”. music runs on an event or continuous basis, allowing rigorous analysis of the merit of proposed strategies over the short-term and long-term.

Who should attend

music training is aimed at professionals in government, consultancies and waterway and catchment management agencies seeking to implement SuDS.  This workshop is appropriate for those who have had no prior training in the music software, but an understanding of hydrologic and water quality processes, preferably within an urban context, are a prerequisite for the course.

Course outcomes

Delegates attending the course will learn how to simulate and evaluate the performance of stormwater treatment measures, either singularly or in a treatment train using the music software.

Topics covered

• An overview of the theory and assumptions behind music
• An introduction to the music model 
• Methodologies to use when applying music to urban stormwater management scenarios
• Strategies to successfully model stormwater treatment
• Building, running and reviewing music models
• Examination of stormwater management applications and their benefits and limitations

Summary

• Two day introductory course
• A comprehensive set of course notes, worked examples and case studies will be provided
• Counts as 12 CPD/CET hours

Presenter

Tony Weber

Tony is the Water Quality Practice Leader in Australia and an Associate at BMT WBM.  Tony is a member of the eWater music Development Team and is lead trainer for the software.  Tony has worked in the water industry (including water supply and laboratory analysis, stormwater management, and strategic urban water management) for over 20 years.