The Most Influential Structure in Your Detention System.
Expanding outlet control strategy to meaningfully shift required storage volume, basin footprint, and project cost.
How Detention Is Typically Designed
Detention systems are typically designed around routing models, multi-storm compliance, and established outlet structures.
Orifices and weirs are widely used because they are familiar, easy to model, and fit within standard design workflows. Under typical project timelines, this makes them a practical and defensible choice. As a result, the outlet control strategy is often selected early and carried through design.
In many cases, this approach meets compliance targets—but can limit how effectively storage volume is used across different storm events.
Expanding how the outlet is controlled changes how detention systems perform.
Learn About Automated Flow Control Systems
Intentional outlet strategy development that expands the hydraulic performance envelope of detention systems and shifts required storage volume.
Technology Partnerships
Structured technical alignment with advanced flow control and treatment technologies, ensuring hydraulic behavior, regulatory positioning, and application logic remain consistent and defensible.
Engineering Tool Development
Development of validated calculation engines and structured design tools that serve as the technical backbone for hydraulic sizing, regulatory alignment, and digital deployment.
Why Active Flow Control?
Detention volume is not set by hydrology alone.
It is governed by discharge behavior.
Conventional outlet structures concentrate control near design head, inherently constraining system performance.
Expanding outlet strategy during early-stage modeling can meaningfully shift required storage volume — without increasing site complexity.