This document is the StormTech Subsurface Sport Turf Applications Brochure. Chamber applications and benefits included.

The increasing popularity of sports fields for both indoor and outdoor events places growing demands and opportunities on turf design and maintenance. In many of our project designs the use of chambers increases the available capacity for storm water runoff not just from the field itself but from adjacent non-porous surfaces such as stadium seating, running tracks, adjacent buildings’ roof drains and parking surfaces.

StormTech chambers are designed to meet the most stringent industry performance standards for superior structural integrity while providing designers with a cost-effective method to provide advanced drainage to address today’s increasing demand for sports fields ranging from elementary schools to the professional sports field.

StormTech can be designed with direct connections of manifold pipes and catch basins so storm water can be collected at various non-porous locations thus avoiding sheet flow of storm water runoff directly on to the playing surface.

The following benefits of a well-designed and maintained drainage system include healthier natural playing surfaces, functional synthetic playing surfaces, maximum playability and safer surfaces.

All StormTech chambers are designed with an optimized joining system. The height and width of the end corrugations have been designed to provide the required structural safety factors while providing an unobstructed flow path down each row. All StormTech chambers are designed to the full scope of ASTM Standards to assure 2-to-1 safety factor for both live and long-term dead loads. StormTech’s continuously curved; elliptical arch, integral stiffening ribs and the surrounding angular backfill are the key components of the structural system to assure a long, safe service life. The chambers are produced using high-pressure injection molding which creates a product with consistent wall thickness and are produced from high-quality, impact-modified resins which are tested for short-term and long-term mechanical properties. A cross section of the synthetic turf application of the SC-740 chamber system is shown with an explainer of how it works.

A second cross section of a natural turf grass application using the SC-740 chamber is shown with major features and benefits listed.

A chart listing all the chamber models and specs is included.