Understanding the impact of basin size and uniformity will improve the odds of a successful flow monitoring project and help you spend the public’s money wisely.

For the purposes of this article, a basin or sewer shed is defined as the portion of a sewer system or sewer shed upstream of a flowmeter or between meters. Basin sizes can be defined by the length of public sewer, inch/diameter/miles of public sewer or acres of developed area in the sewer shed. The concept of...