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Performing a watershed analysis

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Performing a watershed analysis

- [Voiceover] As a designer for a land development project one of the most important pieces of information you'll need to obtain is how much storm flow is expected at critical points at or near the development. Let's see how a watershed analysis helps you achieve this. Now we're not quite at the location of our development. You can see our development here but maybe one of the things that the town is concerned about with this new development is an area of the road that's been known to have flooding or erosion issues because of this creek running through here. Now we've actually redesigned this area. The road used to come up and kind of snake along, cross the stream, and come back around to this location and tie in so we've taken out that section of the road and created a connector between these two roads that's much straighter. So what used to be a very windy road is now a straight shot across from one side to the other. Of course we're crossing the creek as well and we need to…

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