Storm and Sanitary Sewer Network Design Handbook

BNQ 3660-004
Storm and Sanitary Sewer Network Design Handbook

In 1989, the then Ministère de l’Environnement published Directive 004 on sewer networks. This document presented the Ministère’s recommendations regarding storm and sanitary sewer network design; it was used for many years by design engineers for the design of this type of structure.

In 2018, the Ministère de l'Environnement expressed the need to update Directive 004 to modernize it and adapt it to current practices.

The BNQ was thus given a mandate by the Ministère de l'Environnement to lead work on standardization with a view to developing a consensus standard to replace Directive 004 with a municipal sewer network design handbook. The new design handbook addresses the following topics:

• the general elements of design;
• the presentation of a project;
• the hydraulic design of the pipes; 
• the structural design of the pipes; 
• the design of a dual drainage storm sewer network (minor network and major network); 
• the design of a sanitary sewer network;
• the design of pumping stations;
• overflow structures.

The design handbook takes into account certain considerations such as ease of maintenance and operation of the structures, along with aspects related to user safety regarding the facilities and buildings.

In the case of a storm sewer network, which includes a minor network and major network (dual drainage), strategic choices have to be made by the design engineer to respond to conditions such as the rainfall intensities (intensity-duration-frequency [IDF] curves) considered in order to handle climate change.

Furthermore, the notion of infrastructure resilience is also addressed in the design handbook. Among other things, a method for the analysis of hydraulic transients in the pressure pipes is provided.

Finally, flow charts illustrating the steps for the design of storm and sanitary sewers are also presented to guide the design engineer.

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12816	FRN	BNQ 3660-004	Manuel de conception des réseaux d'égout pluvial et sanitaire
PROJECT IN PROCESS (planned date for publication: June 2024)

Committee members

Number of committee members: 17

Mr. Philippe Barcelo	Parallèle 54 Expert-Conseil (P54)
Mr. François Beaudoin	Tetra Tech QI
Mr. David Beauséjour	Centre d’expertise et de recherche en infrastructures urbaines (CERIU)
Mr. Saad Bennis	École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) - Département de génie de la construction
Mr. Martin Bouchard Valentine	Ministère de l'Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques
Mr. Marc Bélanger	Association des ingénieurs municipaux du Québec (AIMQ)
Ms. Sophie Duchesne	Institut national de la recherche scientifique - Centre Eau Terre Environnement (INRS-ETE)
Mr. Driss Ellassraoui	Ville de Laval
Mr. Musandji Fuamba	Polytechnique Montréal
Mr. Frédéric Gaudet	Ville de Sherbrooke
Mr. Marc-André Labelle	Centre des technologies de l'eau
Mr. Richard Lizotte	Ville de Saint-Jérôme
Mr. Kaven Massé	Municipalité régionale de comté de l'Érable
Mr. Philip Morin	Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable du Québec (MTMD)
Mr. Yvon Plante	Groupe Hélios
Mr. Jean-François Renaud	Ville de Québec - Service de l'ingénierie
Mr. Gilles Rivard	Lasalle NHC

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