1. At a particular time, the storage in a river reach is 60 x 103 m3.
At that time, the inflow into the
reach is 10 m3/s and the outflow is 16 m3/s. after two hours, the inflow and the outflow are 18
m3/s and 20 m3/s respectively. Determine the change in storage during two hours period and
the storage volume after two hours.
2. For a total rainfall distributed as shown in the Column 2, the φ-index of the catchment area for a
certain surface runoff is found to be 9 mm/hr.
i. Determine the value of surface runoff producing a φ−index of 9 mm/hr.
ii. Determine the total rainfall in the catchment area.
iii. If the same rainfall had been distributed as shown in column 3, compute the
value of φ−index that would yield the same surface runoff. Comment on your
answers.
TIME RAINFALL INTENSITY (1) (mm/hr) RAINFALL INTENSITY (2) (mm/hr)
0 0 0
1 5 9
2 15 16
3 20 27
4 20 10
5 14 8
6 1 5
3. A rain of 35mm fell on a drainage basin during a one-hour period beginning 01-00 hr. The
drainage area is 78.2 km2. The Following table lists the measured discharge from the area with
respect to time
a. Develop a one-hour unit hydrograph.
b. Compute and plot the hydrograph of surface runoff for two periods of heavy rain
occurring: First storm: of 100mm rain between midnight and 02-00 hr; and 40mm rain
between 02-00 and 03-00 hr. Second storm: of 89mm rain between 04-00 and 05-00 hr.
Assume a constant loss rate of 18mm and a constant base flow of 8m3/s Comment
about your graph.
4. The following are the ordinates of the 9-hour unit hydrograph for the entire catchment of the river
Damodar up to Tenughat dam site: and the catchment characteristics are , A = 4480 km2, L = 318 km,
Lca = 198 km. Derive a 3-hour unit hydrograph for the catchment area of river Damodar up to the
head of Tenughat reservoir, given the catchment characteristics as, A = 3780km2, L = 284 km, Lca =
184km. Use Snyder’s approach with necessary modifications for the shape of the hydrograph.
Time (hr) 0 9 18 27 36 45 54 63 72 81 90
Flow 0 69 1000 210 118 74 46 26 13 4 0
(cumecs)
5. Draw the Unit Hydrograph for a river which flows in a midsize catchment of 120 km2. After a 3-
hour storm, the following flow hydrograph was recorded at the catchment outlet flow station.
assume a constant base flow of 10 m3/s
6. The land use and soil characteristics of a 5000-ha catchment are as follows:
Soil: Not a black soil.
Hydrologic soil classification: 60% is Group B and 40% is Group C
Land Use:
Hard surface areas = 10%
Waste Land = 5%
Orchard (without understory cover) = 30%
Cultivated (Terraced), poor condition = 55%
Antecedent rain: The total rainfall in past five days was 30 mm.
It is a dormant season
a. Compute the runoff volume from a 125 mm rainfall in a day on the catchment
b. What would have been the runoff if the rainfall in the previous 5 days was 10 mm?
c. If the entire area is urbanized with 60% residential area (65% average impervious area), 10% of
paved streets and 30% commercial and business area (85% impervious), estimate the runoff
volume under AMC-II condition for one day rainfall of 125 mm.
7. Develop a 30-minute SCS triangular unit hydrograph for a watershed of area 550 ha and time of
concentration of 50 minutes.
8. Compute the area-weighted curve number for a hypothetical watershed of two type of soils
covering 1300 sq. km and 777 sq. km and exhibiting curve number 60 and 45, respectively. Slope
of watershed is 0.6% and hydraulic length of watershed is 3,048 m. Net rainfall is 5.1 cm during
the rainfall of 6 hr. Compute the parameters of the SCS triangular hydrograph.
9. Using the derived 2-hr unit hydro graph in Table below, determine the direct runoff hydrograph
for a 4-hr storm having the following excess rain amounts: