VOODOO HYDROLOGY WEBINAR 2021 IN AN ONGOING SERIES: “Urban Hydrology: A Look Behind the Curtain” – The Voodoo never stops! This webinar was born out of the Andy Reese article by the same name in the July/August 2006 edition of Stormwater magazine
Note to Reader:
In February 2013, Andy Reese delivered a webinar for Forester University titled “Voodoo Hydrology – Pitfalls of Urban Hydrology Methods & What You Need to Know”. This was the first in what became an annual webinar series, with the last one being in 2021. The Voodoo never stops! That webinar is still available on the Stormwater University website.
Andy Reece is a popular speaker and thought leader having spoken at over fifty conferences including keynoting the inaugural STORMCON and the first Water Environment Federation Stormwater Congress. He has taught many short courses on topics related to stormwater management including webinars on Voodoo Hydrology, Stormwater Utility Development and Green Infrastructure Program Development. He has published over fifty articles and papers including the best selling textbook Municipal Stormwater Management which he co-authored with Dr. Thomas Debo in 2002.
Voodoo Hydrology – Pitfalls of Urban Hydrology Methods & What You Need to Know
“Urban hydrology is stormwater management’s dirty little secret. It has been estimated that one out of every three design plan submittals has significant errors in hydrology estimates but only one in twenty is caught,” states Andy Reese.
“The truth is: urban hydrology—including newer Green Infrastructure sizing approaches and even detailed modeling approaches—as commonly practiced, is an inexact science at best. We can just now make the same mistakes at near light speed!”
“As such, knowing the inner workings of the “black boxes,” unstated assumptions, and limitations inherent in the urban stormwater hydrologic design methodologies that we commonly use (even within modern computer packages) is essential to ensuring proper application—but there are few places to get such information. This webinar is one of them.”
To Learn More:
To download a report-style PDF copy of the 2013 waterbucket.ca story complete with the 2006 article by Andy Reese, click here.
