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What is InRoads Storm&Sanitary?

Storm&Sanitary is Bentley's InRoads drainage module, design to automate and integrate the most common drainage solutions in the InRoads design environment.

Seamlessly integrates AutoCAD, MicroStation v8 and InRoads, and its data. No conversion or import/export required.

A single source drainage graphic and hydraulic engine that effectively manages the primary roadway drainage workflows (HEC-22, HDS-5, Modified Rational, SCS, etc.)

Integrates and Automates the typical design workflow:

graphic drainage areas
structure layout and annotation
Profile creation and annotation
Automatic Pipe and Inlet sizing capabilities
Individual and "Bulk" tools to edit/tweak model (items AND their dependencies)
Has a large variety of integrated tools to facilitate evaluation, design and Quality Control (Reports, Visual Database Queries, etc.).

What it Isn't

S&S is a robust hydraulic modeler based on commonly used methodologies. It is not an "extreme" or special-niche hydraulic engine:

S&S can take network travel time into account and will route input hydrographs, but isn't a VERY sophisticated time-varying model (no internal storage to mitigate peaks, etc.).
No backwater curves.
No Multiple Stage Pond Routing.
It doesn't "automate" NPDES design (no "one-button" solution; but its tools do make it easier to design and analyze).

What it delivers "Out of the Box"

S&S, "out of the box," delivers a complete, standard drafting and drainage solution, including design, evaluation and quality control tools. . Numbers agree with common standards and applications such as HEC-22 and Haestad Methods' Flowmaster.

What it can (easily) Deliver

Because it is seamlessly integrated into the InRoads design environment, its physical and hydraulic model is completely and intelligently modeled in an industry standard Microsoft Access database, and is customizable via industry-standard tools, the S&S hydraulic model is an ideal platform from which to manage all drainage projects. The extreme "manageability" and extensibility of the graphics/hydraulics makes S&S an ideal platform from which to manage custom calculations or workflows.

While based on accepted Standards, there may be variations between what S&S delivers and what you are required to deliver.

S&S reporting tools and its Microsoft Access database allow standard and relatively simple automations to:

provide data feeds to 3rd Party or custom software or spreadsheets
modify S&S data
use custom calculations to populate S&S data
pretty much deliver anything

Why you should be using it

If you work in an InRoads shop, S&S is really a no-brainer, for four reasons:

it is so well-integrated into the InRoads design environment
it delivers good numbers
it is so easily extensible
it is easy to learn.

Non-InRoads shops can also benefit from Storm&Sanitary.

S&S does not require any InRoads data to work. Users can key-in data (yuk!) S&S greatly streamlines data input, quality control and design by using InRoads Surfaces and alignments.

S&S contains InRoads Import functions to convert graphic surface and geometry data to InRoads format.

How to learn it

Because the scope of Storm&Sanitary is very specific, it doesn't take long to learn. Students of my "Mastering Storm&Sanitary" class typically are proficient (no, really, proficient!) with the "dry" workflow in a day. The "wet" workflow (understanding the many hydraulically-important settings, that they are correct and being able to deliver an accurate hydraulic model) takes another day and a half.

Learning all the hydraulic equations and deep details takes drainage expertise, HEC-22 familiarity and quite a bit more time.

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