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EPA Stormwater Calculator

The URL to get to EPA SWC is https://swcweb.epa.gov/stormwatercalculator/.

Location

Running through the Stormwater Calculator the 1st thing that is put in is location. Banklick Creek is easily identified

Soil Type

Soil Type UrL for getting the soil data is as follows: https://swcweb.epa.gov/swcalculator-server/api/v1/soils?latitude=38.99550867774415&longitude=-84.53898977196341&distance=1000

It returns the following data Soil Map Data

Drainage

Drainage Map

Topography

Topography Map

Rain Gages

Rain Gages Map

RainGage 1 RainGage 2 RainGage 3 RainGage 4 RainGage 5

We can also pull down temperature files.

temperature files

NOTE

You need to select the rain gages from the map and not from the dropdown boxes. The dropdown boxes do not work and you will save the same rain gage file multiple times.

Rain Gage File

The rainfall gages go from 1990 - 2019. The format is the same as our rainfall.dat files. This is Gage Id, Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute, rainfall value. The rainfall data in these files is hourly.

Climate Change

This is the first page that we do not have a similar page for. Therefore I have documented this a little more.

Climate Change 1 Climate Change 1 Climate Change 1 Climate Change 1

Land Cover

Land Cover

LID

Lid Controls

Project Cost

This is another section that we have not done.

Project Cost 1 Project Cost 2 Project Cost 3 Project Cost 4 Project Cost 5 Project Cost 6 Project Cost 7

Saving the XML style data

Outlook will not allow you to download the file. Yahoo does not have that problem. This is not an INP file. It is just an XML. I have not seen any location where an INP file is generated. SWC XML file

Results Page

results page

Saving the results

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