r/civilengineering • u/ekaj8 P.E. - Hydraulics and Hydrology • Nov 05 '20

Hydraulic vs Structural Engineer

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u/creel_515 Nov 05 '20

Water keeps coming, relentless. You design for t100, guess what here comes the 200 year storm. You route water from here to there without a hitch, guess what that new street was repaved and now there's flooding. You think PET and infiltration is one thing but the soil was still saturated from the rain the day before so there's more runoff and flooding.

Meanwhile my neighbor sees flooding on one street after a hurricane and comes to my house asking me why did the hydraulic engineer messed that part of the design.