New features. Improved functionality.
Designing urban development proposals that meet Water Sensitive Urban Design Standards has been made easier with the release of the new version of the urban stormwater software, music v4.
music v4 is one of the few software tools available that can accurately simulate real-time water sensitive design.
music – model for urban stormwater improvement conceptualisation – is designed to help urban stormwater professionals visualise possible strategies to tackle urban stormwater hydrology and pollution impacts. Since music was first developed in 2001, the software has been used by thousands of professionals working in private practice and in state, regional and local government agencies throughout Australia.
Product info
What's new in v4
With version 4.0, we’ve included new features that improve flexibility, functionality and usability. music v4 provides even better support for water sensitive urban design (WSUD) and integrated urban water management (IUWM) objectives. music v4 incorporates the latest science from Monash University and the Facility for Advancing Water Biofiltration (FAWB) and is designed to provide the highest level of confidence when modelling urban stormwater solutions. We’ve also substantially improved the user experience through a better interface and more flexible training and support options.
music v4 can simulate urban stormwater systems ranging from a suburban block up to a whole town or suburb (10 km2). The time scale can start at 6 minutes and stretch up to 24 hours.
Some of the features and upgrades in music v4 include:
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Bioretention
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Media filtration
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Infiltration
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Improved user interface
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Six minute timestep
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Stormwater harvesting
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Continuously stirred tank reactors
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Stormwater reuse
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Storage-discharge
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Life cycle cost
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Gross Pollutant Trap
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Modelling pollutants
Click on the button below to view more information on each feature or upgrade.
music v4 features and upgrades
Development of music
music – model for urban stormwater improvement conceptualisation – was first developed in 2001.
Research by Dr Tony Wong and colleagues at Monash University and eWater’s forerunner organisation, the CRC for Catchment Hydrology identified that urban water professionals needed a decision support system to evaluate treatment measures and strategies if urban stormwater quality was to be improved.
Fundamental to this was research that showed that treatment of nearly all urban stormwater systems could be simulated using one model, the ‘universal stormwater treatment model’. This breakthrough, combined with a detailed understanding of the hydrology and pollutants of urban areas, gave Dr Wong’s team the necessary building blocks that became music.
The music development team focused on having a tool that, though easy to use, was underlain by high quality science. Dr Wong recognised that the science of estimating water quality had tended to become event-based and deterministic, whereas the quality of urban stormwater really depends on the statistical outcome of many rainfall events interacting with a handful of physical and chemical processes. If this ‘actuarial approach’ could be captured with an appropriate algorithm, calculations would be much simplified.
The hydrology inside music, developed by Francis Chiew and colleagues in the CRC for Catchment Hydrology, is based on defining an impervious area and the properties of related pervious areas. Once this is done, the runoff from an area can be estimated. More and more, confident estimates of hydrology are becoming as important as estimating water quality. In fact, changes in urban hydrology can have major impacts on the health of creeks and streams, as work by Associate Professor Tim Fletcher (a member of the music development team) and colleagues at Monash University has shown.
Taking music from strength to strength
music v4 is supported by eWater and is strongly grounded in proven Australian science and user experience to reduce the uncertainty surrounding stormwater management strategies.
- Version 2 extended the features and provided export options
- Version 3 introduced life-cycle costing, rainwater tanks and infiltration basins
- Now Version 4 provides more powerful modeling of bioretention and inflitation systems, the flexibility to model heavy metals and other pollutants, as well as simpler calibration tools.
music has been rigorously tested by hundreds of users and the feedback received has made it better, more robust and reliable.
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music and WSUD
Designing urban development proposals that meet Water Sensitive Urban Design Standards has been made easier with the release of the new version of the urban stormwater software, music v4. music v4 is one of the few software tools available that can accurately simulate real-time water sensitive design.
From governments to catchment management groups, many organisations have introduced initiatives to protect the aquatic environment of urban areas. While the initial focus was on point sources of pollution, such as sewage discharge and industrial effluent, attention has now turned to diffuse sources of pollution, such as urban stormwater. Indeed, stormwater runoff is recognised as a major carrier of urban pollutants.
It is difficult to prevent stormwater from damaging and polluting creeks because runoff can be contaminated almost anywhere rain falls, and excessive flows will occur wherever there are impervious surfaces directly connected to waterways. Consequently, successful initiatives to manage stormwater must adopt a catchment-wide approach, with a particular focus on tacking the sources of stormwater runoff at or near their source. The diffuse sources of stormwater pollution also demand a multi-disciplinary approach. Successful initiatives may need to integrate a range of urban planning and design disciplines, including urban hydrology, land-use planning, landscape design and asset life-cycle economics.
As an aid to decision-making, music v4 predicts the performance of stormwater quality management systems. It is intended to help organisations plan and design (at a conceptual level) appropriate urban stormwater management systems for their catchments.
music v4 can model a wide range of treatment devices to find the best way to capture stormwater runoff, remove its contaminants, and reduce the frequency of runoff. music v4 helps to evaluate treatment devices until the best combination of cost, hydrology and water quality improvement has been achieved.
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Licencing
Click on the button below to view information on music licencing and support.
Please contact eWater for International prices on music@ewater.com.au or +61 1300-5-WATER (1300 592 837)
Real world applications
Since music was first developed in 2001, the software has been used by thousands of urban stormwater professionals working in private practice and in state, regional and local government agencies throughout Australia.
music guidelines have been, or are being, written for a range of locations across Australia, including Melbourne, Sydney’s drinking water catchments, South East Queensland, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Mackay, Perth and Darwin. Environmental and engineering consultants around Australia use music every day to design urban development proposals that meet Water Sensitive Urban Design standards. music is even being used to look at the effects of wetlands in agricultural catchments near the Great Barrier Reef.
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Support
eWater offers two support packages. Standard Support is included in the licence price and is provided with every purchase of music v4. Premium Support and Maintenance is available for a separate annual fee and is the best choice for organisations where music v4 is a mission critical application.
To find out more, or access support, click on the button below or call 1300-5-WATER.
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Training
eWater offers a range of training courses, both online and face to face. Online training currently includes:
- Getting to know music and Intermediate music (Face to face)
- What's new in music v4 (Online)
- Transitioning from music 3 to music v4 (Online)
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