With MUSIC you can:
- simulate urban stormwater systems from the individual lot to suburb scale
- estimate the potential for stormwater harvesting and reuse and understand the effects on downstream flows and water quality
- model pollutants, including suspended solids, total phosphorus and total nitrogen
- compare the water-quantity, quality and cost/benefit objectives of different treatment options, such as swales, bio-retention system, rainwater tanks, wetlands
- design urban development proposals that meet WSUD standards.
Established and trusted
Local Government and the urban development industry have relied on MUSIC to support improved stormwater management and water sensitive urban design since 2001. Developed by leading hydrologists and ecologists and updated regularly to include new technologies and requirements, it is a robust and reliable platform relied upon by thousands of stormwater professionals.
Ensure compliance with local development standards
Urban development can impact both the volume of water flowing from a site and the quality of the water. To manage these impacts, most jurisdictions in Australia require new developments to meet specified water quality and quantity standards. All development projects are different; designers need to test a range of options that meets these standards but also fits within the overall development design, for example, available space, soil type, slope or building type. MUSIC does just this. It allows designers to test different combinations of treatment options, to find the one that meets the required standards and fits within the project brief.
An optional feature is MUSIC-Link which streamlines the process for assessing compliance of your design against a participating approval authorities guidelines.
A wide range of stormwater treatment options
MUSIC can model a wide range of treatment devices to find the best way to capture and reuse stormwater runoff, remove its contaminants, and reduce the frequency of runoff. To help choose the suite of treatments that best meet your cost, hydrology and water quality goals.
These are vegetated stormwater filtration systems that use a soil or sand-based filtration medium to remove particulates and soluble contaminants. The system may be lined or unlined and may or may not have an underdrain.
Unvegetated infiltration systems, for removing contaminants, which have no underdrain. Can account for horizontal flows from storage, changes in flow with depth and different linings.
Media filtration systems
Unvegetated stormwater filtration systems for removing contaminants, using media such as gravel, sand or other fine granular material. They are assumed always to have an outlet pipe (underdrain).
Gross pollutant traps
These mesh-like devices are designed to remove floating and suspended rubbish and debris above 5mm in size.
Strips of vegetated land beside a road are effective in the removal of coarse and medium-size suspended particles; they provide good pre-treatment prior to a bioretention system or other vegetated treatment measures.
Open channels that use vegetation to primarily remove suspended solids. Subject to high flows, they rely on shallow slopes and the density and height of vegetation, to work well.
Ponds and sedimentation basins
Open water bodies act as temporary stores to allow the settling of suspended solids. They can include ornamental ponds, but usually lack vegetation. Reuse of the water is an option.
These domestic water stores enable roof runoff to be captured and used. Contaminants can either settle in the tank or are removed when the water is used on a garden. Tanks can reduce stormwater flows and help to counteract the increase in impervious area that urbanisation brings. They also provide an alternative water supply.
These are heavily vegetated water bodies; the physical, chemical and biological processes that they facilitate remove fine suspended sediment and soluble and insoluble contaminants. Wetlands are commonly used as ‘end of pipe’ measures, but recent research shows they also work well earlier on. MUSIC can also model reuse of the water in a wetland’s permanent pool.
Assists in stormwater peak flow management.
Generic treatment nodes
Allows the user to model a treatment device that is not a specific node within the program, provding the user has sufficient data to model it effectively; for example, flow diversions, flow dilutions or contamination by sewer overflow. In these cases, MUSIC allows the user to define ‘transfer functions’ for flows and water quality.
A tool for Integrated Water Resources Management
Upgrading to MUSICX, gives water managers the ability to connect their urban water quality models, with Source catchment and river system models. Combined with the new Source Urban Developer plugin, you can now analyses urban water demand, urban water quality and water supply in the one model. The whole system can be modelled, allowing you to explore integrated water resource management options.
Modern software architecture and additional functionality
Integration with the Source platform modernizes the underlying code and software architecture of MUSIC, Like Source, plugins can be written to readily input new industry practices, knowledge, data and science.
Integration with Source also gives MUSICX additional functionality and enhanced features, such as more advanced options for inputting, analysing and presenting data.