This activity will require approximately fifty minutes to initiate. The monitoring of the system will require an additional ten minutes weekly. A thirty minute period will be required during each major storm to collect data from the functional storm drain system. Most storm drainage systems in a city follow one of three patterns. One type is sumps or storage ponds.
Storm water is collected into a sump or storage pond.
This allows the runoff to slowly infiltrate the soil. A second type is combined with sewer systems. The runoff water from the storm drainage is combined with the sewer system. The water is directed to the wastewater treatment plant for processing. The third type is a separated system.