Origin of Algorithms

In 2003-04 the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Catchment Hydrology gathered costing information on urban stormwater treatment measures from 46 stormwater managers. This information originated from all six Australian States, including major cities and regional areas. It included descriptions of the treatment measure’s design / type, unusual characteristics (e.g. unusual construction costs or disposal costs), expected life cycle / span, catchment area, area of the treatment zone (e.g. for vegetated treatment measures and infiltration measures), cost elements, data quality and how cost elements vary over time (e.g. maintenance costs). Data was sought for all types of stormwater treatment measure that music version 3 can model.

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