Stormwater Atlas

City of Birmingham

Low Impact Development Handbook for the State of Alabama (city uses ADEM LID guidance)

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No durable Birmingham city design-manual PDF; coverage via ADEM LID Handbook. Pipeline excerpt repair removed 2 unlocated citation(s).

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Other manuals in Alabama: Alabama, Alabama, City of Huntsville, City of Mobile, City of Montgomery

Document Metadata

Jurisdiction level
City

“municipality — City of Birmingham”

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State
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Version / edition
ADEM LID Handbook

“Conservation Committee. 2009. Alabama Handbook for Erosion Control, Sediment Control, and Stormwater Management on Construction Sites and Urban Areas. Montgomery, AL. Brown, R.A., W.F. Hunt, and S.G. Kennedy. 2009. Designing Bioretention with an Internal Water Storage (IWS) Lay”

p. 9

Adoption / effective date
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Last revised date
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Design Criteria

Design storm return periods (years)
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Water quality volume method
Bioretention and other SCMs sized for the water quality / first-flush volume per ADEM LID Handbook design guidance. Practices include bioretention cells, constructed stormwater wetlands, swales, and related LID SCMs.

“bioretention is normally designed for the water quality or first flush”

Bioretention chapter

Peak flow calculation method(s)
ADEM LID Handbook hydrology appendix, SCM-specific design procedures

“Appendix A: Stormwater Hydrology”

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Hydrologic/hydraulic software
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Approved BMP categories
Bioretention (BRC), Constructed stormwater wetlands (CSW), Swales, Other LID SCMs per handbook

“Bioretention; Constructed Stormwater Wetlands”

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