Combined sewer overflow over an oblique weir at Rat Creek in Edmonton, Alberta
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Oblique weirs are commonly used in urban drainage systems to remove excess flow from a sewer, in particular, a combined sewer system that has limited conveyance capacity. It is important to understand the hydraulics of these weirs to properly monitor the amount of the overflows as well as to design and improve sewer systems. The Rat Creek structure in Edmonton, Alberta, is a combined sewer overflow structure with a weir at an oblique alignment to the centerline of the sewer. A physical model study of the structure was conducted. The results show that both the approach flow conditions and the chamber geometry can significantly affect the hydraulic performance of the weir and invalidate the application of standard weir equations. A unique flow regime with a linear head–discharge rating curve was observed. The effects of modifying the weir and the hanging baffle wall downstream of the weir were also studied and reported. The results of this case study help to improve the understanding of the hydraulics of oblique weirs in sewer systems.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".