Design Criteria for Detention Basins in Urban Drainage
Many communities require the use of detention basins in order to manage the increased runoff discharge in all newly developing watersheds. The authors have shown earlier that the typical...
Detention Basin Design Using Continuous Simulation
A continuous simulation model is proposed for use in the design of detention basins. The model accepts standard National Weather Service hourly rainfall data as input. The hourly rainfall...
The Storage Matching Technique of Detention Basin Design
In recent years, use of continuous rainfall - runoff simulation with historic rainfall data has become much more popular for the design of detention basins and reservoirs. While it may...
Hydraulics of Enlarging Cannonsville Reservoir
This paper describes the hydraulic studies performed for enlarging the Cannonsville Reservoir with a gate system which could raise the normal storage level without having an adverse effect...
Flood Forecasting Using Local Resources
A dynamic wave flood routing computer program has been used to develop a flood forecasting model for a 5000 mi**2 watershed in lower Michigan. The modeled area covers over 200 miles of...
Real-Time Hydrologic Modeling
The Huntington District of the Corps of Engineers is currently using daily computer modeling for guidance in regulating all nine of its major river basins. Both pool elevation and flow...
Modeling Coal Pile Leachate - A Case Study
Ground water transport of coal leachate from an existing unlined coal storage pile was modeled using the USGS 'Computer Model of Two-Dimensional Solute Transport and Dispersion...
An Application of EPA EXTRAN Model to a Flood Management Study in South Florida
In performing the flood management studies, somewhat unique concerns in South Florida are the backwater conditions due to tidal or non-tidal tailwater, flow reversals from project canal...
Shoal Creek Flood Control Plan Austin, Texas
Following the devastating 1981 Memorial Day flood, a comprehensive and innovative flood control plan was developed and implemented for Austin's Shoal Creek Watershed. The...
Multiple Parameter Rule Curve for Reservoir Operations
A procedure for deriving operations rules for water supply storage in a multipurpose reservoir, based on physical principles and data analysis, is described. This procedure has several...
A Real-Time Flood Management Model for River-Reservoir Systems
A flood forecasting model has been developed for the Lower Colorado River Authority that can be used in a real-time framework to make decisions on reservoir operations during flooding....
ESOLIN: A Model to Optimize Water Resource Systems
ESOLIN is a simulation model designed to study and optimize the development and operation of large hydro resource schemes. It was developed as a tool for the development of large hydro...
Criteria for Spillway Design Floods
The procedures outlined in this paper only address the hydrologic safety criteria for spillway design floods. The recommended procedures are based on a careful identification of the social,...
Indemnification Costs in the Dam Safety Decision
The ASCE Task Committee on Spillway Design Floods has proposed safety criteria for three categories of dams. Category 1 dams are those with anticipated failure consequences so large and...
Effects of Data Extension on Drought Probabilities
A condensed-parameter disaggregation model was applied to the monthly streamflow records on two rivers in Idaho, to investigate the occurrence and probabilities of drought periods. Using...
Hydrologic Runoff Modeling of Small Watersheds: The Tinflow Model
TINFLOW is a PC-based Geographic Information System (GIS) that utilizes the Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) and associated data structures, together with a deterministic, finite difference...
A Flood Prediction Geographic Information System
The paper discusses a GIS that derives kinematic wave model parameters using stream network, elevation, and basin boundary data. Various approaches are being investigated for estimating...
Modeling Support for Stormwater Management
An innovative 'digitization' procedure has been developed and successfully utilized to accurately and economically prepare and manage the extensive amount of...
A Filtering Approach to Flood Routing
Hydrologic river routing and hydraulic channel routing are in general use for flood routing. Both approaches use deterministic mathematical models and treat inflow and outflow hydrographs...
Utility Programs for DWOPER and DAMBRK
Time and computer resources greatly limit potential investigations and sensitivity anslyses. In order to facilitate modeling with the National Weather Service (NWS) programs DWOPER (Operational...
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