Design manual

Contents
Highway
or waterway
1. Technical description 3
1.1. General information 3
1.2. Basic technical information 4
1.3. Description 5
2. The advantages of Stormbox 5
3. Standards, certificates 5
4. Intended use 6
5. Scope and conditions of use 6
5.1. Installation parameters for areas subject to traffic loads 6
5.2. Installation parameters for green areas 6
6. The structure of the Stormbox 7
6.1. Infiltration box 7
6.2. Ground plate 9
6.3. Clips 10
7. Surface area of openings 10
7.1. Total surface area of openings 10
7.2. Surface area of side wall openings 11
7.3. Surface area of ground plate openings 11
8. Box marking 11
9. Load resistance 11
10. Transport and storage 12
11. Installation guidelines 12
11.1. Diagrams of various Stormbox arrangements 13
11.2. Sequence of tasks to be performed when installing
a rainwater infiltration system 15
11.3. Sequence of tasks to be performed when installing
a rainwater storage system 19
11.4. Connecting pipes to boxes 22
11.5. Connecting boxes to settling chambers 23
11.6. Inspections and cleaning of the boxes 26
11.7. Minimum distances from the building or other objects 28
11.8. Digging trenches 28
11.9. Preparing the trench bed 28
11.10. Soil classification 28
11.11. Sidefill compaction 29
11.12. Example resistance calculations 30
12. Design guidelines 31
12.1. Hydraulic conductivity 31
12.2. Determining the infiltration suitability of soil 31
12.3. Hydraulic conductivity for various types of soil 32
12.4. Guidelines on rainwater infiltration into the ground 32
12.5. Dimensioning guidelines 33
12.6. Precipitation regions 33
12.7. Probability of precipitation 34
12.8. Protecting systems from overload 34
12.9. Intensity of rainfall for regions in Poland 34
12.10. Amount of precipitation for regions in Poland 35
12.11. Calculating the amount of runoff from a given catchment area 35
12.12. Calculating the amount of outflow in a system for holding
the first wave of runoff 36
12.13. Calculating the required size of a rainwater infiltration system 37
12.14. Example calculations of the required number and
volume of boxes 39
13. Operation of the infiltration system 39
13.1. Maintenance work 40
13.2. Operation in winter . 40
14. Standard requirements 40
15. Product range 41