As part of this update, Stantec was retained to lead City staff and external software vendors and organizations through a Hydraulic Needs Assessment. With population and employment on the rise, the City of Waterloo initiated an update to the previous City-wide sanitary sewer system. With PCSWMM you can estimate non-point source pollutant loadings for managing water quality released to receiving waters, to meet water quality regulations. Your sanitary system can also readily be integrated into a catchment/watershed management model, including regions having undeveloped areas, rivers, treatment plants and receiving waters. Moreover PCSWMM provides for design and analysis of control strategies for reducing bypasses and fully assists in the processing, calibration, manipulation and conversion of observed data. Using PCSWMM sanitary sewer collection systems may be unlimited in size, time steps and number and size of control devices. Sanitary sewer systems are considered beneficial because they avoid combined sewer overflows. Sanitary sewers are distinguished from combined sewers, which combine sewage with stormwater runoff in the same pipe. In municipalities served by sanitary sewers, separate storm drains convey surface runoff directly to surface waters. Sanitary sewers serving industrial areas also carry industrial wastewater. Separate sanitary sewers (or 'foul” sewers) are placed underground and designed specifically to transport sewage from houses and commercial buildings through pipes to treatment to control water pollution before discharge to surface waters. In straightforward steps, PCSWMM allows you to optimally design and size sanitary sewer systems with arbitrary arrays of storages, pumps and force mains, both for proposed systems and rehabilitation of existing systems.

Simplified sewerage design software