permaculture

[FionaNyx@aol.com]

In a message dated 98-09-24 07:24:43 EDT, you write:

<< One option obviously is to require the use of complex hydraulic 
 computations for each new development including Manning's Equation, 
 roughness coefficients and the rest. This has problems, not least of 
 which being that smaller developers, owner-builders etc. will have 
 neither the resources nor the expertise to comply. The alternative - 
 that the City Council staff handle the calculations - is not an option, 
 given that staff in the development approval area are stretched to the 
 limit as it is.
  >>

A very simple software application should be able to handle the computation.