AD-SDI DATA CONTENT STANDARD

UTILITY – STORM WATER DRAINAGE

Version 1.0

February 2012

Prepared by
Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre (ADSIC)
Abu Dhabi, UAE
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REVISION HISTORY

Revision # Reason Effective Date

1 Original Draft March 2009

2 Revised 28 Apr 2009

3 Revised to take care of the Unified Data 19 Feb 2012

Model of DMA (ver "0 27.2") and the
Storm Water Data project of ADM “Data
Management System for Irrigation and
Storm Water Networks, Contract No.
144/5C”. No changes to the model.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Introduction .................................................................................................... 4

2 Scope, purpose, and application ................................................................... 4

2.1 Scope ................................................................................................................................. 4
2.2 Purpose ............................................................................................................................. 5
2.3 Application ....................................................................................................................... 5

3 Terms and definitions .................................................................................... 5

4 Symbols, abbreviated terms, and notations ................................................ 7

5 Content Model ................................................................................................ 8

5.1 Stormwater Drainage ...................................................................................................... 8

6 UML Model .................................................................................................... 9

6.1 UML Model for Stormwater Drainage ......................................................................... 9

7 Data Dictionary ............................................................................................ 10

7.1 Data Dictionary for Stormwater Drainage ................................................................. 10
7.1.1 Features of Stormwater Drainage Network .................................................................. 10

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1 Introduction
The primary purpose of this part of the FGDS Data Content Standard is to support the
exchange of storm water drainage utility data. This part seeks to establish a common baseline
for the semantic content of storm water drainage utility databases for public agencies and
private enterprises. It also seeks to decrease the costs and simplify the exchange of storm
water drainage utility data among local, Emirate, and Federal users and producers. That, in
turn, discourages duplicative data collection. Benefits of adopting this part of the standard
also include the long-term improvement of the storm water drainage network data within the
AD-SDI community.

The FGDS Data Content Standard for utility data is developed with a certain philosophy
which includes the following concepts:

 Keep it simple; have the fewest data elements possible, but make those data elements
mandatory. This encourages use of the part.

 Use single data types, for example, coordinate types. Different organizations store
their data or make them available using a variety of data types, for example, latitude
longitude, UTM coordinates, Nahrwan datum, WGS 84 datum, and so on. Because
the data provider, the organization creating the data, is the one most knowledgeable
about their data, they should be responsible for converting their data into this single
data type. Multiple data types would make the part less useful to data users.

 Require metadata supporting how the utility data was compiled and how their
corresponding accuracy values were estimated.

2 Scope, purpose, and application

2.1 Scope

Utility data encompasses a wide range of spatial data entities that are fundamental to many
GIS applications. Utility data sets pertaining to the supply of water, power, gas, waste water,
and communications are normally considered key elements of base maps and serves as
essential reference data in this context. The datasets are also of interest because they include
many elements critical to the public and private infrastructure and provide services in daily
life of citizens. The reliable functioning of the increasingly complex, inter-connected, and
inter-dependent utility infrastructures including electric, water, and gas supply systems,
wastewater systems, and communications is vital for the security, economic prosperity, and
social well-being of the nation.

The inter-dependencies are either physical or geospatial in nature. Physical inter-dependence

occur when, for example, the water supply infrastructure depends on electric power to
operate its pumps while, at the same time, the electric power infrastructure must have water
to make steam and cool its equipment. Geospatial inter-dependencies arise when

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infrastructure components such as electricity cables, water pipelines, gas pipelines, and
telecommunications cables, share common corridors in the same geographic area.

2.2 Purpose

In the context of AD-SDI, this document defines the storm water drainage utility data theme
to include those geographic entities that are explicitly designated for disposing storm water.
As such, this data theme includes layers containing such features as pipelines, channels,
manholes, valves, pump stations, and outfalls.

2.3 Application

This part of the FGDS Data Content Standard is intended to facilitate a common
methodology to manage and share storm water drainage utility datasets among various
organizations at the Federal, Emirate, and local government levels, academia, and the private
sector.

The data set contains storm water drainage utility point features located along utility line
features involved in the transport of storm water. They also contain polygon structure features
of the drainage network. The non-network structural support features located along the
network features are also part of this data set.

The utility features often provide good landmarks for orientation and navigation purposes
because of their large size. They can also provide a quick visualization of the infrastructure
elements located in an area. The features offer a high-level appreciation of the degree of
infrastructure interdependency.

3 Terms and definitions

Table 1: Terms and Definitions of Storm water drainage network

Basin An administratively chosen standardized watershed used for reference and data cataloging.
Basins are usually named after the principal rivers and streams of a region.

Bridge A bridge is a structure that allows passage over an obstacle. Bridges carry railroad lines,
highways, and pathways over water and deep gorges. Bridges impede water flow by
narrowing the stream cross-sectional area, which increases the water surface elevation and
produces backwater effects upstream of the bridge.

Catchment An elementary drainage area produced by subdivision of the landscape using a consistent
set of physical rules.

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Channel An elongated open depression in which water may or does flow. An elongated depression,
either naturally or artificially created and of appreciable size, which periodically or
continuously contains moving water, or which forms a connecting link between two bodies
of water. It must have a definite bed and bank which serve to confine the water.

Culvert A culvert is a road conveyance over a stream formed by a set of pipes inserted into the road
embankment. A bridge differs from a culvert in that it is a formal structure crossing the
stream, and connected to road embankments at both ends of the structure. Culverts are
conduits that provide flow of storm water underneath driveways, roadways or sidewalks and
other types of pedestrian causeways.

Dam A dam is a structure that creates an artificial lake, or reservoir, by blocking a river or stream.
Dams may harness the energy of falling water or provide flood control. They also store
water for municipal water supply and crop irrigation, raise the water level to allow for
navigation, and divert water into a pipe or channel.

Discharge (a) The quantity of water, silt, or other mobile substances passing along a conduit per unit of
time, rate of flow, cubic feet per second, liters per second, millions of gallons per day, etc.;
(b) The act involved in water or other liquid passing through an opening or along a conduit
or channel; (c) The water or other liquid which emerges from an opening or passes along a
conduit of channel.

Drainage area The drainage area of a stream at a specified location, measured in a horizontal plane, which
is enclosed by a topographic divide such that direct surface runoff from precipitation
normally would drain by gravity into the river basin above the specified point.

Monitoring Monitoring points are intended to store the locations of gauges that measure water quantity
points or quality, and may have time series data associated with them for analysis purposes.
Examples of monitoring points include water quality monitoring stations, stream gauge
stations, rain gauge stations, and any other type of fixed-location data collection points.

Outfall An outfall is a location from which storm water runoff is funneled to and dispersed into
creeks or other hydrological features.

Pipes Storm sewer pipes, which are separated from the wastewater sewage system, carry water
underground from manhole locations to other manholes or ditches, culverts or outfalls.

Storm drainage Any structure used principally to retain, detain, collect, direct, transfer, transport, carry,
system convey, distribute, or treat, singly or in any combination, storm water or other surface
water, including, but not limited to aprons, basins, catchments, conduits, culverts, dams,
dikes, ditches, drains, drops, filters, grates, infiltration devices, inlets, manholes, man-made
channels, outlets, pipes, ponds, risers, spillways, storm sewers, swales and trenches; and
also including any maintenance areas needed for such structures.

Watershed A drainage area produced by a human-selected subdivision of the landscape. Watersheds

can be defined by the area draining to a point on a river network, to a river segment, or to a
water body.

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4 Symbols, abbreviated terms, and notations

The following symbols, abbreviations, and notations are applicable to this document.
Symbols, abbreviations, and notations applicable to multiple parts are listed in the Base
Document.

WGS 84 – World Geodetic System of 1984

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5 Content Model

5.1 Stormwater Drainage

Storm water drainage facilities include the network of above and below ground channels,
drains, pipes, and associated appurtenances that are used to manage storm water and prevent
flooding or other damage and prevent danger to humans. In urban areas, this includes a
delineation of impervious surfaces, catchments that shed to particular drains or inflow grates,
and a network of underground pipes leading to some outfall. Other elements may include
manholes, pumping stations, above ground drainage canals, natural drainages and other
components. These can all be modeled in GIS to provide a basis for conducting storm water
management plans and facility designs.

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6 UML Model
This section provides the UML models for all the utilities.

6.1 UML Model for Stormwater Drainage

StormwaterDrainageNetwork

StwNode StwLines StwStructure

-assetDiameter +pipeMaterial

stwValve stwManhole StwPumpStation StwOutfall

+coverLevel +depth +structureType
+bottomLevel +chamberMaterial +structureMaterial
+coverMaterial +pipeMaterial
+numberOfPipes
+diameterOfPipes
+structureDepth

stwPipe StwGratedChannel
+type +width
+diameter +depth
+averageDepth +outletLevel

Figure: UML Model for Stormwater Drainage Network

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7 Data Dictionary

7.1 Data Dictionary for Stormwater Drainage

7.1.1 Features of Stormwater Drainage Network

Table 2: Data Dictionary for features of Stormwater Drainage network

StwNode This is an abstract class to store the following attributes common to Stormwater
node (point) features.

assetDiameter The diameter, in mm, of the valve or manhole.

StwValve

No additional attributes.

StwManhole

coverLevel The depth, from the ground in meters, to the cover of the manhole.

bottomLevel The depth, from the ground in meters, to the bottom of the manhole.

StwLines This is an abstract class to store the following attributes common to Stormwater
pipeline (line) features.

pipeMaterial The material that the pipe is made of.

StwPipe These are pipes that carry water underground from manhole locations to other
manholes or ditches, culverts or outfalls.

type The type of the storm water pipe.

diameter The diameter, in mm, of the storm water pipe.

averageDepth The average depth, from the ground, where the pipe is located in meters.

StwGratedChannel A Channel is an elongated depression, either naturally or artificially created, which

forms a connecting link between two bodies of water. A grate is a framework of
parallel or latticed bars placed flush or slightly below the floor to catch any water
that may enter from the outside.

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width The width of the Channel in meters.

depth The depth, from the ground, of the Channel in meters.

outletLevel The level of Grated Channel outlet in meters from the ground.

StwStructure This is an abstract class to store the following attributes common to Stormwater
structure (polygon) features.

No attributes.

StwPumpStation A building in which two or more pumps operate to supply fluid flowing at adequate
pressure to a distribution system.

depth Depth of the Pump Station from ground Level in Meters

chamberMaterial Material that the Chamber is made of.

coverMaterial Material that the Chamber Cover is made of.

StwOutfall The structure at the open end of a drain with an outlet or place where the Stormwater
drain discharges.

structureType The type of the Outfall structure .

structureMaterial The material that the Outfall structure is made of.

pipeMaterial The material that the storm water outfall pipe is made of.

numberOfPipes The number of pipes that go into the Outfall.

diameterOfPipes The diameter, in mm, of the storm water outfall pipe.

structureDepth The depth of the Outfall from the ground in meters.

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