Earthworks sites around the world constantly have to prepare and plan for significant weather events that could impact their workflow and project progress, including flowing and standing water due to heavy rainfall. Now, you can measure and analyze the potential impact of these sometimes unfore
Earthworks sites around the world constantly have to prepare and plan for significant weather events that could impact their workflow and project progress, including flowing and standing water due to heavy rainfall. Now, you can measure and analyze the potential impact of these sometimes unforeseen events across your worksite by using Propeller’s new Hydrology platform feature. Here, we explain how the feature works.
Located under the Propeller Platform’s Surveys tab, Hydrology provides you with an easy way to quickly visualize or forecast how heavy rainfall or other flowing water could affect your worksite, based on the current topography and terrain. The feature includes two options: Flow Lines and Liquid Drop Analysis:
Flow Lines – Selecting “Site Flow Lines” from the left navigation displays lines across your site showing how significant rainwater or other water streams could flow across the terrain. It can also highlight where you could see significant high water flows, as well as where standing water could collect. Within the platform you can navigate across your site and select the specific area you want to analyze for water flow.
Liquid Drop Analysis – This function focuses on a specific area of your site that you select from the left navigation of your dashboard. Next, you outline the radius of the spill/flow you want to view, and click on the map to start the simulation of the water flow. You can review the simulation as many times as needed and can also adjust the radius size of the area you want to analyze.
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