A client wants us (consultant) to determine the HGL through a storm water system that is drastically undersized (10Yr Storm).
The traditional way of adding up head losses results in HGL shooting out of the catch basins (in excess of 100 ft) in the street because of the friction head loss...
For culvert endwalls with wingwalls, what height do you design for? Obviously, it would not be full height of the endwall. - It seems that the culvert area does not contribute to the force behind the wall as a typical retaining wall would. Also, it seems that the wingwalls are helping to...
