CE 2500: Engineering Hydrology

Assignment-1
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Due Date: 29 August 2019 at 12:00 noon
24th August 2019

1. The watershed of a stream has five raingauge stations inside the basin. When Theissen
polygons were constructed, three more stations (B, D and F) lying outside the watershed
were found to have weightages. The details of Theissen polygons surrounding each
raingauge and the recordings of the raingauges are given below. Determine the average
depth of the rainfall on the watershed by a) arithmetic mean method, and b) Theissen
mean method.
Raingauge station A B C D E F G H
Theissen polygon 600 1480 1560 800 1400 2000 528 1056
area (km2)
Recorded rainfall in 106 121 164 154 101 115 96 101
mm

2. The mass curve of rainfall in a storm of total duration 90 minutes is given below. (a)
Draw the hyetograph of the storm at 20 minutes time step, (b) Plot the maximum
intensity-duration curve for the storm, and (c) Plot the maximum depth-duration curve for
the storm.

Time (min) 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Cumulative 0 19 41 48 68 91 124 152 160 166
rainfall (mm)

3. The annual rainfall values at a station P for a period of 20 years are as follows:
record of annual rainfall at a place is available for 25 years. Plot the curve of recurrence
interval vs annual magnitude and estimate the magnitude of rainfall at the station that
would correspond to a recurrence interval of 15 years.

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 4. A one-day rainfall of 10.0
1 cm at a place X was
w found too have a retuurn period of
o 50 years.
Calculate th
he probability that a onne-day rainffall of magnnitude equaal to or largeer than 10.0
0
cm:
(a) Will no
ot occur at sttation X durring the nexxt 20 years
(b) Will occur thrice inn 50 successive years
(c) Will occur in the next
n year
5. A wheat field
f has maximum
m aavailable moisture
m off 12 cm. If
I the refeerence crop
p
evapotransp
piration is 6 mm/d, estiimate the acctual evapottranspiratioon on Day 2, Day 7 and
d
Day 9 afterr irrigation. Assume soiil-water deppletion factoor = 0.2, andd crop factoor = 0.65.

6. Results of an
a infiltrom
meter test onn a soil are given
g below
w. Determine the best values
v of thee
parameters of Horton’s infiltration
n capacity equation
e forr the soil.

Timee since start 5 10 15 25 400 60 75 90 110 130

in miinutes
Cum
mulative 21 36 47.66 56.9 633.8 69.8 74.8 79.3 87 92
infilttration in mm

7. The rainfaall on five successivee days on a catchmeent was 4, 6, 10, 5, and 1 cm

m
respectively
y. The φ-inndex for thee storm is assumed too be 4 cm/d
d. Calculatee the directt
runoff from
m the catchm
ment due to this storm.

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 8. Compute the ponding time and cumulative infiltration at ponding for a clay loam soil
with a 25 percent initial effective saturation subject to a rainfall intensity of (a) 1 cm/h
and (b) 3 cm/h. Porosity = 0.464, effective porosity = 0.309, wetting front soil suction
head = 20.88 cm, and Hydraulic conductivity = 0.1 cm/h.
9. Calculate the cumulative infiltration and infiltration rate after one hour of rainfall at 3
cm/h on a clay loam with a 25 percent initial effective saturation. Porosity = 0.464,
effective porosity = 0.309, wetting front soil suction head = 20.88 cm, and Hydraulic
conductivity = 0.1 cm/h.

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