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The document outlines five projects conducted by Balaji Angamuthu during a professional practice at HR Wallingford, focusing on hydro-informatics and water management. Key projects include developing sustainability assessment tools for drainage systems, assessing Southern England catchment models in light of climate change, and modeling the Mymmshall Brook's flow. Additional work involved GIS data processing for flood risk assessment and project management tasks for the FLOODsite initiative.

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The document outlines five projects conducted by Balaji Angamuthu during a professional practice at HR Wallingford, focusing on hydro-informatics and water management. Key projects include developing sustainability assessment tools for drainage systems, assessing Southern England catchment models in light of climate change, and modeling the Mymmshall Brook's flow. Additional work involved GIS data processing for flood risk assessment and project management tasks for the FLOODsite initiative.

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Author: Balaji Angamuthu

Master Work Title: A professional Practice in Hydro-Informatics and Water


Management
Number of Volumes: 1 Number of Pages: 85 Number of References: 15
Hosting Company: HR Wallingford, the UK
Publication Year: 2006
Abstract

Five different projects have been carried out during the professional practice at HR Wallingford,
the UK.

1. Development of sustainability assessment tools for SUDS in new development


Drainage systems for new developments have to be assessed for several measures of
sustainability. This required the development of tools to measure for technical, environmental,
economical and social sustainability criteria. Tools such as Hydraulic Performance Assessment,
Infiltration Volume Computation Model Structure and Water Quality Assessment have been
developed in Microsoft Excel Visual Basic for Application to measure the technical
sustainability criterion.

2. Assessment of the quality of Southern England Catchment models


During the last few years, the climate change has tremendously influenced the meteorological
variables and thus the river flows. ‘Effect of climate change on river flows and groundwater
recharge: A practical methodology’ project required the study of low flow phenomenon in the
UK rivers. The relevancy and the quality of the 11 Southern England catchment models have
been assessed using the Catchmod software. The quality of the models has been found good.

3. Modelling of the Mymmshall Brook


A legal case in the UK has been concerned with the frequency and the nature of flows in the
Mymmshall Brook for the period from September 1999 to March 2000. Modelling of the Brook
has been carried out in the 1D ISIS software. The results show that there was a significant flow
over a number of times in the Brook during that period.

4. Detailed River Network Pre-Processing in GIS


Risk Assessment of Flood and Coastal Defences for the Strategic Planning High Level
Methodology (RASP HLM) requires the Detailed River Network (DRN) with the river
centrelines to be a continuous network of polylines, digitised in the direction of flow, with
nodes at all confluences and bifurcations, and without pseudo nodes. This required the data
cleaning exercise to be carried out in the ArcGIS software with appropriate tools to make the
DRN data usable in the RASP HLM.
5. FLOODsite Project Management
HR Wallingford is the Co-ordinator of the FLOODsite Project. The Project Co-ordination Team
there has been assisted on some of their website-related co-ordination tasks. The Document
Management System and the project links databases have been brought up-to-date, and review
of the user-friendliness of the overall website has been completed.

Key-Words:
- Drainage systems, hydraulic and water quality assessment, sustainability index
- River modelling, discharge, velocity, swallow holes
- Climate change, catchment models, low flow, hydrograph, flow duration curve
- River network, nodes, polylines, flow error, flow direction
- Project Management, Document Management System, project links, website review

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