Acknowlegement

This research was supported by the Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP) project from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDGC). We thank Illinois State Water Survey (ISWS) and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for valuable data. We also thank Andrea Zimmer and Sarah Berastegui-Vidalle for their scientific guidance related to genetic algorithm technique. This paper is based on the model methodology and result portion of the first author’s Ph.D. dissertation with the citation Choi, N. (2016) Understanding sewer infiltration and inflow using impulse response functions derived from physics-based models (Doctoral Dissertation), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Retrieved from https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/90540/CHOI-DISSERTATION-2016.pdf?sequence=1.