Road Drainage

You are an Engineer Intern at SEPI, Inc and are tasked with determining how many drainage inlets are needed to prevent unsafe amounts of water from pooling on the roadways. In the "Explore" activity that will follow this launch, the drainage area will be given as 50.0 acres. For this project, we assume that during rain events, water will flow from this entire 50 acre area to the roadway and so the entire 50 acres will need to be drained by the inlets. You will specifically be looking at a 0.36 mile stretch of Old Honeycutt Rd (in the town of Fuquay-Varina) and the surrounding area.

By Wendy Johnson