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The document discusses various topics related to flooding and flood mitigation including defining floods and their causes, types of flood damage, and structural and non-structural mitigation measures. It also covers topics like developing hydrographs, reservoir routing, drought types, and drought management options.

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XTRM 23

The document discusses various topics related to flooding and flood mitigation including defining floods and their causes, types of flood damage, and structural and non-structural mitigation measures. It also covers topics like developing hydrographs, reservoir routing, drought types, and drought management options.

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1. Define flood and discuss the major causes of flooding.

2. Give examples of the damage that floods cause.


3. Compare structural and non-structural flood mitigation measures
4. There are two types of reservoirs. Mention and distinguish between them.
5. Discuss the following: i) flood proofing ii) flood failure in buildings.
(Flood mitigation hand out)
6. Use the monthly flow data for the Little Weiser River given in Table
11.7.1 to develop the flow-duration curve and determine the firm yield for
this site.
7. Using the monthly data in Table 11.7.1 for the Little Weiser River,
construct the cumulative mass curve over the five-year period and
determine the required active storage capacity to produce a firm yield of
2000 ac-ft/month.
8. For the critical period shown by the mass curve in Figure 11.7.4,
determine whether the unregulated inflow can be increased to a firm flow
of 760 cfs.
9. Use the following monthly evaporation loss and precipitation data and
use the sequent-peak method to determine the required active storage for
producing 2000 ac-ft/month firm yield. Seepage losses are negligible.

10. You are responsible for developing the runoff hydrograph for a
watershed that fortunately has gauged information at a very nearby
location on the stream. You have obtained information on an actual
rainfall-runoff event for this watershed. This information includes the
actual rainfall hyetograph and the resulting runoff hydrograph. You have
been asked to develop the runoff hydrograph for a design rainfall event.
The peak discharge from this new developed storm hydrograph will be
used to design a hydraulic structure. You will assume a constant
baseflow and a constant rainfall abstraction. Explain the hydrologic
analysis procedure that you will use to solve this problem.
11. The Kowloon Bywash Reservoir (KBR) is located on the upstream of
the Lai Chi Kok area. It is a small reservoir equipped with a tunnel with a
maximum capacity of 2 m3/s delivering reservoir water to the
downstream Tai Po Road water treatment plant. There is an uncontrolled
spillway with the crest elevation at 115 m. The stage-volume-outflow
relationships of KBR are shown in the attached table and
Figure P9.2.12a. Further, the reservoir routing curve, i.e.,
Consider the inflow hydrograph given in the table below. Determine the
peak outflow discharge from the KBR and the corresponding water
surface elevation and the storage volume. Assume that the initial storage
in the reservoir is 500,000 m3.
12.
13. A river flowing by a village situated in a low-lying area has 5 years
of discharge measurements. The peak discharges in the river exceeding
100m3/s over the period of record are shown in the table below. Due to
frequent flooding of the village, a dike system is to be constructed by the
local government for protecting the village. From the viewpoint of safety
performance of the system, the local government requires that the failure
probability of the dike system over an expected service period of 50 years
is 0.30 or less.
(a) What return period should the dike system be designed for?
(b) Based on the annual maximum floods, determine the magnitude of
design discharge corresponding to the return period obtained in part (a).
(c) Repeat part (b) using the annual exceedance series of floods applying the
frequency factor method with a log-Pearson type III distribution.
page 441, Water resources engineering book)
14. Define the following types of droughts;
(a) Hydrologic drought
(b) Hydrologic drought
(c) Agricultural drought
(d) Meteorological drought
15. As a water resource engineer with knowledge of drought management, briefly discuss the
various drought management options known to you
16. What is the essential difference between Palmer Drought Severity index (PDSI) and
Surface Water Supply Index (SWSI)

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