Stormwater Atlas

South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD)

Environmental Resource Permit Applicant's Handbook Volume II For Use Within the Geographic Limits of the South Florida Water Management District

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Document Metadata

Jurisdiction level
Special District

Florida water management district (ERP Applicant's Handbook Volume II)

Chapter 62-330, F.A.C. / district handbook

State
Florida

South Florida Water Management District Clerk's Office, 3301 Gun Club Road, West Palm Beach, FL 33406

Section 4.1.1 / references

Version / edition
AH Vol. II (6/28/24)

AH VOL. II (6/28/24)

Header / Title Page

Adoption / effective date
2024-06-28

EFFECTIVE JUNE 28, 2024

Title Page

Last revised date
2024-06-28

EFFECTIVE JUNE 28, 2024

Title Page

Relationship to state manual
adopts state manual directly

This Volume provides specific, detailed stormwater quality and quantity design and performance criteria for SWM systems regulated by the District through the ERP program authorized under Part IV of Chapter 373, F.S.

Section 1.0 Introduction

Design Criteria

Design storm return periods (years)
5-year, 25-year, 100-year

Unless otherwise specified by previous Agency permits, criteria, or Appendix A to this Volume, a 25-year, 3-day storm event shall be used in computing off-site discharge rates.

Section 3.2 Design Storm

Water quality volume method
Water quality treatment volumes and pollutant load-reduction requirements are set forth in ERP Applicant's Handbook Volume I; Volume II adds SFWMD-specific retention/detention criteria (e.g., commercial/industrial projects provide a minimum of 20% of the AH Vol. I load reduction in a retention BMP; exfiltration trenches sized for AH Vol. I water quality requirements exfiltrated over one hour prior to overflow; treatment volume in retention/exfiltration systems is not discharged to surface waters).

Commercial or industrial zoned projects shall provide a minimum of 20% of the load reduction required by AH Vol. I in a retention BMP or a separate containment system designed to prevent discharge.

Section 4.1.1 Land Use and Coverage Criteria

Peak flow calculation method(s)
Pre- and post-development runoff hydrographs with detention routing (stage-storage-discharge), SCS Peak Rate Factor (K') method, NRCS National Engineering Handbook Section 4, Part 630, Chapter 10 (peak factors), Rational method (for water quality retention/detention)

An acceptable historic peak discharge analysis typically consists of generating pre-development and post-development runoff hydrographs, routing the post-development hydrograph through a detention basin, and sizing an overflow structure to control post-development discharges at or below pre-development rates.

Section 3.2.1 Methodologies

Hydrologic/hydraulic software
Not found in document

No evidence cited

Approved BMP categories
Retention systems (depressional areas, shallow landscaped areas, vegetated swales), Dry retention/detention, Wet detention, Exfiltration trench (underground), Above Ground Impoundment (AGI), Grassed waterways / spreader swales

Examples of retention systems include: (a) Man-made or natural depressional areas... (b) Shallow landscaped areas designed to store stormwater; and (c) Vegetated swales with swale blocks or raised inlets.

Section 5.2.1 Retention System