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Criteria Manual

Urban Storm Drainage Criteria Manual

MHFD is dedicated to promoting criteria for adoption by communities as well as guidance for engineers, planners, landscape architects, developers, and contractors within the Denver Metro region.

Users are encouraged to use the electronic version posted on this website as updates to this manual may be done as frequently as annually.

Volume 1

Volume 1

Management, Hydrology and Hydraulics

Volume 1
Criteria Manual Volume 2

Volume 2

Structures, Storage and Recreation

Volume 2
Criteria Manual Volume 3

Volume Three

Stormwater Quality

Volume 3

Software

MHFD has developed a number of tools to assist engineers and design professionals develop hydrology, adhere to MHFD criteria, and perform various analyses.

Hydrologic and Hydraulic Software

Excel

CUHP 2005 Version 2.0.1 | Nov-2019 (XLTM, 477 BB)

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PDF

CUHP 2005 Manual | Sep-2016 (PDF, 7.0 MB)

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Website

UWRI Water Quality Capture Optimization and Statistics Model (WQ-COSM)

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Design Tools as presented in USDCM Volumes I and II

Zip

Culvert Design – UD-Culvert v3.05 | Nov-2017 (ZIP, 460 KB)

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Excel

Detention Design – MHFD-Detention v4.04 | Feb-2021 (XLSM, 7.0 MB)

MHFD Detention Instructional Video

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Excel

Peak Runoff Prediction by the Rational Method – UD Rational 2.00 | May-2017 (XLS, 1.00 MB)

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Zip

Street Capacity and Inlet Sizing – UD-Inlet v4.05 | Mar-2017 (XLS, 4.20 MB)

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BMP Sizing – Whole-life Cycle Cost as presented in USDCM Volume III

Excel

UD-BMP v3.07 | Apr-2018 (ZIP, 1.81 MB)

UD-BPM v3.07 Instructional Video

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Zip

BMP Life Cycle Cost Analysis Tool – BMP-REALCOST | Nov-2017 (ZIP, 2.0 MB)

NOTE: .ZIP file includes the users manual. For user manual appendices, please email us contact@mhfd.org

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