Three-Dimensional Modeling of Cohesive Sediments and Pollutants in Surface Waters
Particulate and dissolved pollutant transport rates are predicted using a pollutant transport modeling system. The latter is a finite element model capable of simulating three-dimensional...
Probabilistic Maintenance Opportunities
The Bureau of Reclamation has instituted a number of operation and maintenance oversight activities to ensure that Reclamation and water-user operated projects are operated and maintained...
Scodie Canyon Flash Floods of 1984
This paper describes a unique thunderstorm and flood which occurred in Kern County, California in 1984. It describes the follow-up studies and method of implementation of building restrictions...
Alluvial Fan Flooding and Development Alternatives
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) utilizes a methodology which examines the probability of an incised channel forming at any given location across the fan, in consideration...
Little Dry Creek Channel Improvements Provide Flood Control and Revitalization for Englewood, Colorado
A multi-purpose, off-stream storage facility located at the upstream end of the project provides 85 acre-feet of flood storage during the 100-year storm and provides athletic fields during...
Hydrologic Conditions at the Des Plaines Wetlands
An area of abandoned farmland and gravel quarries in northeastern Illinois has been converted to a test site for methods to reestablish or restore wetlands. Four stream gaging stations...
Ultimate Sediment Concentration
The sediment rating curve is used to relate sediment discharge to water discharge, under steady equilibrium flow conditions. The slope of the sediment rating curve is a measure of the...
Sediment Discharge Measurement with a Point Sampler
A procedure for measuring total sediment discharge using point-source suspended-sediment data was developed. The proposed procedure, Total Sediment Discharge (TSD), was tested with field...
Effectiveness of Spur Dike Notching
The most widely used technique of ameliorating the environmental effects of river-training works has been to construct notches in spur dikes (or to allow notches to remain in damaged dikes)...
Runoff Probability Distribution Characteristics
The probabilistic relations of an elemental rainfall - runoff process are analyzed. The elemental process is defined as runoff from a uniformly sloping impervious plane due to uniform...
Upland Erosion Estimates Based on Rainfall Depth
The probability density functions of rainfall duration and intensity are coupled with a physically-based dynamic formulation of rainfall-runoff-sediment transport for upland areas. When...
The USDA Water Erosion Prediction Project
New generation water erosion prediction technology is being developed by the USDA Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP). The new technology is expected to replace the Universal Soil...
An Agricultural Watershed Environmental Study
The concerns of this study are the effects of soil and water conservation measures on a salmonid habitat for an agricultural watershed. The study includes an economic analysis in accordance...
Water and Sediment Yield in the Tucannon River
A site specific model for water and sediment yield was developed to estimate water quality aspects of the Tucannon River Basin. In this paper, the relation of water and sediment yield...
Environmental Degradation of Spawning Gravels in the Tucannon River
The important relationship between upstream soil and water conservation measures and salmonid habitat conditions in the Pacific Northwest is illustrated by way of computer simulations...
Water Quality Modeling Using a Small Watershed Model (SWAM)
The Small Watershed Model (SWAM) is a state-of-the-art model that simulates the movement of water, sediment, and chemicals through a small, mixed-land-use watershed. It was developed to...
Model Complexity Required to Maintain Hydrologic Response
An increasing number of practitioners are using distributed hydrologic models employing kinematic routing. Watersheds are typically represented by a set of overland flow plane and channel...
Comparison of Peak Discharges of Hydrologic Models
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the predictive capabilities of hydrologic models in estimating the magnitudes and frequencies of flood peaks by comparing them with the values...
Unit Hydrograph Relationships for Small Urban Texas Watersheds
Snyder's unit hydrograph methods are used in a HEC-1 multiple sub-area routing model where the sub-area sizes average one to two square miles in size. However, the Snyder's...
Hydrograph Timebase
Based on the study of a large number of hydrographs, a graphic solution is presented whereby the length of the hydrograph timebase can be directly read from the proposed graphic solution...
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