King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

Civil & Environmental Engineering Department

CE 335
Engineering Hydrology

ASSIGNMENT 1

1. The evaporation losses from a reservoir of constant surface area of 500 acres are 150
acre-ft per day. If the outflow from the reservoir is 50 cfs and a precipitation of 3 in. falls
on the reservoir surface in a day. What is the change in the reservoir depth?

2. During a two-hour storm the precipitation over a 100-acre area is 1.2 in. There is a
constant infiltration at a rate of 0.4 in./hour. The depression storage is 20 acre-ft. Is there
any runoff? If yes, how much? Disregard evaporation during the storm.

3. The annual precipitation (in mm) observed on a network of stations is shown in Fig. 1.
Trace the drainage basin along with the location and values of the rainfall on paper and
compute the average areal rainfall by (a) the arithmetic average, and (b) the Thiessen
polygon method.
Q1 A = So0ac ,
E == 0 .

3ft

R = Gol 5660 (*) x84600

Tox (Soy) = 0 .

1987tku

1 = R+ E = 0 .
3+ 0 .
198 = 0 .
498 Ft/ day

Q2
1) Convert to Volumes :

Pro = 12x2 X 100 = 10 acre-ft

Jun = x2 x 100 = 6 67 acre-ft

.

SD = 20 a crc-ft

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6 67-20
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-- 16 .
67 a cVe-f-

* Since R is a
negative value there is
,
no run off

Q3
+ 110 + 60
- 75+ 20 + 70

+
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= 77
+

Avithmatic Average = 86mm .

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4. The following rainfall record exists for five stations in a basin for the month of August.
Estimate the missing rainfall for August 2015 for station A.

5. Compute the rainfall at an ungauged point X (Figure 2) using the Inverse Distance
Weighting method.
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