MWH Releases InfoSWMM and H2OMAP SWMM 8.5

V8.5 adds powerful features and leverages engine enhancements included in the latest release of EPA SWMM5 (5.0.017). It marks a significant evolution of the company's SWMM-based urban drainage modelling and design products, which continue to be top choices for the effective evaluation, design, management, rehabilitation and operation of wastewater and stormwater collection systems.

Underlining MWH Soft's leadership in the wastewater industry, InfoSWMM and H2OMAP SWMM reflect the company's ongoing commitment to delivering pioneering technology that raises the bar for urban drainage network modelling and simulation, helping to shape the future of this critical sector. The full-featured InfoSWMM urban drainage network analysis and design program is the only urban drainage modelling solution certified by the National Association of GIS-Centric Software. It addresses all operations of a typical sewer system - from analysis and design to management functions such as water quality assessment, pollution prediction, sediment transport, urban flooding, real-time control and record keeping - in a single, fully integrated geoengineering environment whose powerful hydraulic computational engine is endorsed by the USEPA and certified by FEMA.

H2OMAP SWMM is a fully dynamic, geospatial wastewater and stormwater modelling, simulation and management software application. It can be effectively used to model the entire land phase of the hydrologic cycle as applied to urban stormwater and wastewater collection systems. The model can perform single event or long-term (continuous) rainfall-runoff simulations that account for climate, soil, land use and topographic conditions of the watershed. H2OMAP SWMM supports geocoding and multiple mapping layers which can be imported from one of many data sources, including Computer-Aided Design (CAD) drawings (e.g., dwg, dgn, dxf); CAD world files; standard GIS formats (Shapefiles, Generate files, MID/MIF files, and ArcInfo coverages); Vector Product Format (VPF) files; attribute tables; grid data; image files; and ODBC files; and CSV files.

Focused on expanded hydraulic improvements, V8.5 features a host of unique new capabilities to help wastewater engineers and planners develop better designs and operational improvements faster and more efficiently. They include enhancements to the transition between node surcharging and node flooding, stronger model validation without interrupting simulation runs, greater RDII data compatibility, infiltration changes that allow the SWMM engine to behave more like TR-55 and TR-20 and the addition of default concentration for dry weather flow pollutants to enable more accurate water quality analysis.

Upgrades to InfoSWMM and H2OMAP SWMM V8.5 are now available worldwide by subscription to the Gold, Platinum or Executive program. Subscription members can immediately download the new version free of charge directly from www.mwhsoft.com.