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PondPack is a versatile detention pond analysis and design software to model any project from basic site designs to complex drainage studies with unlimited ponds.

Deliver high-quality pond design projects
Leverage and import virtually any external data format to jumpstart your model
Model complex pond scenarios and simulate tidal and tailwater effects
Design and analyze culverts

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OVERVIEW

What is PondPack?

PondPack is a versatile detention pond analysis and design software to model any project from basic site designs to complex drainage studies with unlimited ponds. You can model rainfall and runoff from urban and rural watersheds to design detention and retention facilities, outlet structures, and channels.

Complete system analysis and interconnected pond modeling

The robust PondPack analysis engine enables you to compute outlet rating curves with tailwater effects, accounts for pond infiltration, calculates pond detention times, analyzes channels, and performs interconnected pond routing with divergent (multiple) outfalls.

In many scenarios, downstream conditions cause backwater effects that influence the performance of detention pond outlet structures. A pond may discharge to another pond that is close in elevation, or to a location influenced by downstream tidal effects or flooding. With the advanced PondPack Interconnected Pond Modeling (ICPM) capabilities, you can model these complex scenarios with confidence.

New interface and CAD interoperability

PondPack’s new graphical user interface streamlines network layout, data entry, and output viewing. You have the option to add DXF, Shapefiles or raster background layers(e.g. aerial photos), and trace catchments, ponds and channels over the top to scale.

Both PondPack stand-alone and PondPack for AutoCAD versions include a stand-alone interface and can run in MicroStation and OpenRoads for enhanced stormwater civil workflows. PondPack for AutoCAD can also be run in AutoCAD.

Hydrology

PondPack handles an unlimited number of synthetic or real storm events of any duration or distribution. You can choose from a number of standard and regionalized methods such as: SCS 24-hour Type I, IA, II, and II rainfall distributions, Bulletin 70 and 71 rainfall distribution data for the Midwest U.S., gauged rainfall data, rainfall curves created from I-D-F data, I-D-F curves, and more.

For catchment runoff computations, users can choose from the SCS Runoff CN method, the Santa Barbara unit hydrograph, user defined unit hydrograph, the Modified Rational Method or Rational Q/Qp templates. You can also add an unlimited number of user defined hydrographs throughout the watershed.

Catchment infiltration losses can be computed using the SCS Method, the Green-Ampt equation, the Horton equation, or by entering a constant infiltration rate. You can calculate the time of concentration quickly and accurately, even when there are several possible flow paths to consider. PondPack offers you the choice of modeling infiltration from a pond to the surrounding soil using a constant flow rate, or rates that vary depending on the depth of water in the pond.

Simple step-by-step pond and outlet design

PondPack PondMaker guides you through the pond design process by providing an easy step-by-step interface that gives them constant feedback on how the design is progressing. You can explicitly set the allowable pond outflow rate, or let PondMaker automatically apply predeveloped conditions for multiple storm events. PondMaker also assists you by keeping track of information such as target outflows, pond volume estimates, outlet structure design trials, peak pond outflows, and maximum water surface elevations for multiple storm events and/or multiple ponds.

Comprehensive scenario management

The Scenario Management Center in PondPack gives you full control to configure, run, evaluate, visualize, and compare an unlimited number of scenarios within a single file. You can easily make decisions by comparing alternative designs for a variety of storm events and system conditions (including pre- and post-development).

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

Interface and Graphical Editing

Stand-alone Windows interface
Runs in MicroStation (MicroStation license required), OpenRoads Designer (OpenRoads Designer license required), AutoCAD (AutoCAD and PondPack for AutoCAD required)
Unlimited undo and redo
Element morphing, splitting, and reconnection
Automatic element labeling
Scaled, schematic, and hybrid environments
Element prototypes
Dynamic zooming
Aerial and Named view
Image, CAD, and GIS background layer support

Model Building

Single set of model files for four compatible platforms
Bidrectional synchronized Shapefile, database, spreadsheet, and ODBC connections
Polyline-to-pipe connections from DXF and DWG files
Oracle Locator/Spatial data connections
OpenRoads Designer import/export (pond elevation-volume data)
GIS-ID property (maintain associations between records in source file and elements in a model)

Model Management

Unlimited scenarios and alternatives
Scenario management
Active topology (activate or deactivate network elements)
Tabular reports with global editing, sorting, and filtering
Dynamic (query based) and static selection sets
Element selection by polygon
Element selection inversion
Table opening on selection
Engineering-units management
Drawing review tools
Automatic topology review
Network navigator
Orphaned node and dead-end pipe queries
Hyperlinks for network elements
User-data extensions
ProjectWise integration (including engineering libraries)
Customized engineering libraries for: conduit, curve number (CN), culvert inlet coefficient, rainfall curve, material, Q/Qp template, unit hydrograph, storage chamber, storm event, vortex valve, weir depth coefficient, weir submergence
Import of PondPack V8 engineering library data (.plb) files • Import of PondPack V9 and V10 engineering library data (.plb) files
Import of PondPack V10 data management center (*.plb) files
Submodel import/export

Presentation of Results

Report Builder: per element, all elements, index, summary
Thematic mapping
Dynamic, multi-parameter, and multi-scenario graphing
Advanced tabular reporting with

FlexTables

Property-based color coding, annotation, and symbology
DXF export
Scaled print of network view

PondMaker: Pond Outlet Design

Automatic update of worksheet containing design data for multiple design trials of a single pond
Multiple pond designs possible
Establishment of maximum outflow rates (pre-development or user defined flows)
Post-development pond inflows computation
Pond size requirements estimation
Pond geometry design (grading plan or underground storage).
Outlet structure design
Pre- and post-development peak flow and volume comparison
Hydrograph routing through ponds

Hydraulics and Calculators

Underground detention chambers (including data from CULTEC)
Vortex valves (including data from Hydro International)
Calculators: first flush, estimated storage (overlay hydrographs), minimum drain time, estimate storage (rational method QPeak), estimated storage (peak flows), TR-55 tabular method, TR-55 graphical peak and storage, SCS CN volume
Channel types: circular, rectangular, trapezoidal, parabolic, irregular
Routing methods – For channels: modified Puls, Muskingum, translation. For ponds: level pond routing, interconnected ponds
Outlet types: user-defined rating, culvert (box, circular), stand pipe, inlet box, circular orifice, orifice area, weir (rectangular, V-notched, irregular), vortex valve
Water quality: first flush volume, minimum drain time, detention time estimation

Hydrology

Unlimited number of return events, using SCS 24-hour Type I, IA, II, & II rainfall distributions, Bulletin 70 and 71 rainfall distribution data for the Midwest U.S., Gauged rainfall data, I-D-F curves
Rainfall data input: dimensionless curves with total depth, time-depth curves, user-defined Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) table, IDF curve equation
Time of concentration methods: user-defined, Carter, Eagleson, Espey/Winslow, Federal Aviation Agency, Kerby/Hathaway, Kirpich (PA), Kirpich (TN), length and velocity, SCS lag, TR-55 sheet flow, TR-55 shallow concentrated flow, TR-55 channel flow
Peak flow & hydrograph methods:SCS graphical peak discharge method, rational method, SCS unit hydrograph method, modified rational method, Santa Barbara urban hydrograph, user-defined unit hydrograph, user-defined hydrograph

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Processor
Per minimum operating system requirements

Operating System
Windows Vista, Windows Vista x64, Windows XP (SP2 or later), Windows XP x64, Windows Server 2003 (SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 x64, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 x64

Memory
Per minimum operating system requirements

Hard Disk
300 MB of free storage space, with additional room for data files

Display
800 x 600 resolution, 256 colors

Software pre-requisite
Microsoft .NET Framework (Installer will attempt to download and install this prerequisite if it is not present during installation)

Platform pre-requirements
PondPack runs without platform restrictions using the stand-alone interface. If integration with CAD platforms is desired, these are the requirements: MicroStation V8i, AutoCAD 2009 and 2010, PowerCivil V8i.

TRAINING & RESOURCES

Training Includes:

Online live workshops
OnDemand training
Quick tutorials
Expert advice
Bentley's virtual events

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