JIMMA UNIVERSITY

JIMMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

HYDRAULIC AND WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
ENGINEERING HYDROLOGY ASSIGNMENT TWO FOR 3rd YEAR CIVIL ENG’G STUDENTS

1. A catchment area of 30km2 consists 40, 30 and 30 % of agricultural, forest and residential
land respectively with the longest watercourse stream of 195000m. The elevation of this
catchment at remotest area is 2000m while 1080m at outlet of the catchment and it has
average rainfall of 130mm. Calculate total direct runoff from the catchment if the runoff
coefficient of agricultural, forest and residential area are 0.4, 0.5 and 0.3 respectively.
2. The six-hour unit hydrograph of a watershed having a drainage area equal to 393 km2 is as
follows:
Time 0 6 12 18 24 30 36 42
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OUH(m /s) 0 1.8 30.9 85.6 41.8 14.6 5.5 1.8
For a storm over the watershed having excess rainfall of 5cm for the first six hours and 15 cm
for the second six hours, compute the streamflow hydrograph, assuming a constant base flow of
100 m 3 /s.
3. Obtain a Unit Hydrograph for a basin of 282.6 km2 of area using the rainfall and streamflow
data tabulated below.

Time Observed Time Gross

(h) Hydrograph (h) Precipitation
(m3/s) (GRH)
(cm/h)
0 160 0-1 0.25
1 150 1-2 2.75
2 350 2-3 2.75
3 800 3-4 0.25
4 1200
5 900
6 750
7 550
8 350
9 225
10 150
11 140
For this problem, use the horizontal line method to separate the base flow. From observation of
the hydrograph data, the streamflow at the start of the rising limb of the hydrograph is 150 m3/s.
Thus, use 150 m3/s as the base flow.
4. A watershed has 2-hour unit hydrograph tabulated as follows:

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ENGINEERING HYDROLOGY ASSIGNMENT TWO FOR 3rd YEAR CIVIL ENG’G STUDENTS

Time interval 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
(hour)
Discharge (cfs) 0 100 200 150 100 50 0
(a) Plot the unit hydrograph and estimate the watershed area in acres.
(b) A 3-hour storm in the watershed is forecasted to have precipitations in hourly increment of
0.5, 1.5, and 0.6 in/hr starting at 3 PM on H-day. If the Ф-index of the watershed is 0.2 in/hr,
forecast the flood hydrograph produced by the storm assuming a constant base flow of 20 cfs,.
Note: Design an Excel table to determine the one-hour unit hydrograph by the S-curve method
for the forecasting.
(c) Plot the flood hydrograph and determine the peak discharge and occurring time.
5. The gross rainfall was 14mm for a storm of 3 hour duration on a watershed having 13.6 km2
area. The φ index for the catchment is estimated to be 1.3 mm/h. Derive the UHG for this
catchment from the direct runoff data given below:

Time (h) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1
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DRQ(m3/s 0 1. 6. 8. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0
) 8 1 4 5 2 0 0 2 6 1 7 4 2 2

6. Use the superposition method to calculate

the 2-h and 3-h unit hydrograph of a catchment, based on the following1-h unit hydrograph.

T(hr) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Q(m3/s 0 100 200 400 800 700 600

7 8 9 10 11 12
500 400 300 200 100 0
7. Determine a 4hr UH using the following data for a watershed having a drainage area of 200km 2
assume a constant abstraction rate and a constant base flow of 20m 3/s

Time(hr) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Rainfall(cm) 1 2.5 4 2
Storm(m3/s) 20 30 60 95 130 170 195 175 70 25 20

8. Find the one hour unit hydrograph using the excess rainfall hyetograph and direct runoff hydrograph
given in the table

Time (hr) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Rainfall(cm) 1.06 1.93 1.81

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ENGINEERING HYDROLOGY ASSIGNMENT TWO FOR 3rd YEAR CIVIL ENG’G STUDENTS

Direct
raunoff 11.8 54.4
(m3/s) 9 5 149.99 258.56 300.87 221.83 111.03 52.27 39.70 23.50 8.86

9. From the basin map of a given watershed, the following quantities are measured: L = 150km,
Lc = 75 km, and drainage area = 3500 km2. From the unit hydrograph derived for the
watershed, the following are determined: tR = 12h, tPR = 34 h, and peak (discharge=
157.5m3/s.crn. Determine the coefficients Ct ard Cp for the synthetic unit hydrograph of the
watershed.
Compute the six-hour synthetic unit hydrograph of a watershed having a drainage area of
2500km2 With L = 100km and Lc = 50 km. This watershed is a sub-drainage area of the
watershed in above problem 6.
10. A Guder river catchment has a 2hour unit hydrograph with the ordinates
0,3,11,35,55,66,40,22,9 and 2m3/s. Assume that the base flow at time t=0 hour is 20m 3/s and
linearly increases to 44m3/s at t = 24hours.
a) Compute the hydrograph resulting from two successive 2 hour periods of effective rain of
2cm and 1.5cm respectively.
b) To prevent downstream flooding, the maximum flow to be released from the catchment is
set at 180m3/s. Calculate the space needed to store the excess water from this event ( in
m3)
11. The stream flows due to three successive storms of 2.9, 4.9 and 3.9 cm of 6 hours
duration each on a basin are given below. The area of the basin is 118.8 km2. Assuming a
constant base flow of 20 cumec, derive a 6-hour unit hydrograph for the basin. An average
storm loss of 0.15 cm/hr can be assumed
Time( hr) 0 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33
Flow 20 50 92 140 199 202 204 144 84.5 45.5 29 20
(Cumec)

12. The design storm of a water shed has the depths of rainfall of 4.9 and 3.9 cm for
the consecutive 1-hr periods. The 1-hr UH can be approximated by a triangle of base 6 hr
with a peak of 50 cumec occurring after 2 hr from the beginning. Compute the flood
hydrograph assuming an average loss rate of 9 mm/hr and constant base flow of 10 cumec.
What is the area of water shed and its coefficient of runoff?