This study adopted the norm of soil and water conservation technology to calibrate the flood regression period of retention pond in campus, so as to understand the protection standard and establish the estimation method of flood protection for detention pond in campus. The items of calibration included short duration and long duration (24 hour) storms. Firstly, the necessary parameters, which include concentration time, rainfall intensity and runoff coefficient, were collected to calculate the peak runoff using rational formula. Secondly, the estimation equation of flood volume derived from the norm of soil and water conservation was used to estimate and compare with the useable retention volume, so as to understand the flood protection standard. A case study in Ming Dao University showed that the retention pond can protect the campus from the flood attack of short duration with 25 years return periods. However, the retention volume is not enough to resist the flood attack of long period storm with 25 years return periods.