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Republic of The Philippines Batangas State University: Hydrology

This document appears to be a study guide or exam for a hydrology course, containing 15 multi-part hydrology problems related to topics like watershed runoff, rainfall-runoff relationships, unit hydrographs, flood frequency analysis, and aquifer transmissibility. The problems require calculating values like streamflow rates, return periods, infiltration constants, changes in discharge, storage capacities, and unit hydrograph ordinates. Students are directed to show their work and round final answers to the nearest thousandths.

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Republic of The Philippines Batangas State University: Hydrology

This document appears to be a study guide or exam for a hydrology course, containing 15 multi-part hydrology problems related to topics like watershed runoff, rainfall-runoff relationships, unit hydrographs, flood frequency analysis, and aquifer transmissibility. The problems require calculating values like streamflow rates, return periods, infiltration constants, changes in discharge, storage capacities, and unit hydrograph ordinates. Students are directed to show their work and round final answers to the nearest thousandths.

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Republic of the Philippines

BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY


Pablo Borbon Main II, Batangas City
Batangas City

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE & FINE ARTS


Civil and Sanitary Engineering Department

CE 523- CE Practice with Comprehensive Examination


2nd semester AY 2019-2020

HYDROLOGY

NAME:
SECTION:

Directions: Show the complete solution for each problem. Round-off the final answer to the nearest
thousandths.

1. A watershed has an area of 300 ha. Due to a 10 cm rainfall event over the watershed, a streamflow is
generated and at the outlet of the watershed it lasts for 10 hours. Assuming a runoff/rainfall ratio of
0.20 for this event, the average stream flow rate at the outlet in this period of 10 hours is:

2. A 6-hour rainfall of 6 cm at a place A was found to have a return period of 40 years. What is the
probability that a 6-hour rainfall or larger magnitude will occur at A at least once in 20 successive years?

3. In a small catchment, the infiltration rate was observed to be 10cm/h at the beginning of the rain and it
decreased exponentially to an equilibrium value of 1 cm/h at the end of 9 hours of rain. If a total of 18cm
of water infiltered during 9-hours interval, the value of the decay constant Kh in Horton’s infiltration
equation in (h-1) units is:

4. During a flood in a wide rectangular channel, it is found that a section the depth of flow increases by
50% and at this depth the water surface-slope is half its original value in a given interval of time. This
marks an approximate change in the discharge of:

5. The total rainfall in a catchment of area 1200 km2 during a 6-hour storm is 16 cm while the surface
runoff due to storm is 1.2 x 108 m3. The ø-index is:

6. The peak flow of a flood hydrograph caused by isolated storm was observed to be 120 m3/s. The storm
was of 6 hours duration and had a total rainfall of 7.5cm. If the base flow and the ø-index are assumed to
be 30m3/s and 0.25 cm/h respectively, the peak ordinate of the 6-hour unit hydrograph of the catchment
is:

7. A bridge is designed for a 50-year flood. The probability that only one flood of the design capacity or
higher will occur in the 75-years life of the bridge is:

8. An aquifer confined at top and bottom by impervious is stratified into three layers as follows:

Layer Thickness (m) Permeability (m/day)


Top layer 3.0 30
Middle layer 2.0 10
Bottom layer 5.0 20

The transmissibility of the aquifer in m2/day is:

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9. In a reservoir, the capacity is 20 cm and the annual inflow is estimated to be 25 cm. The trap efficiency
of this reservoir under the normal operating conditions is about:

10. The information available from an isohyetal map of 1100 km2 basin is as follows:

ZONE AREA (KM2) RAIN GAUGE ANNUAL


STATIONS RAINFALL (CM)
1 85 A 120
2 290 B 95
C 96
D 60
3 395 E 65
F 70
4 230 G 45
5 65 H 21

How many additional rain gauge stations will be required if the desired limit for error in the mean value
of rainfall is not to exceed 10 cm?

11. A precipitation station X was inoperative for some time during which a storm occurred. At three
stations A, B and C surrounding X, the total precipitation recorded during this storm are 75mm, 58mm
and 47mm respectively. The normal annual precipitation amounts at stations X, A, B and C are 757mm,
826mm, 618mm and 482mm respectively. Estimate the storm precipitation for station X.

12. Direct runoff from a flood over a basin of area 50 hectares was observed as 25000 m3 during a storm.
The equivalent depth of rainfall over the basin was 97 mm. The time distribution of the rainfall during the
storm is given below. Determine the ø-index for the storm.

Time (hr) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Rainfall (mm) 0 6.0 11.0 34.0 28.0 12.0 6.0 0

13. From the data of the rainstorm shown in the figure, the value of ø-index is:

14. The peak of a 4-hour flood hydrograph is 240 m3/s. If the rainfall excess is 80 mm and base flow
which is constant is 40m3/s, peak of 4 hours unit hydrograph will be:

15. The stage of river carrying a discharge of Q m/sec at a point is 10 m and slope of water surface is
(1/4000). The discharge of a flood same point and same stage of 10 m with a water surface slope of
(1/1000) will be:

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