CE 423: HYDROLOGY

COURSEWORK
PILOT BALLOON/THEODOLITE
QUANTITATIVE HYDROLOGY:

BICOL RIVER BASIN

PART I. PRECIPITATION

ARITHMETIC MEAN METHOD

65

80

σn
i=1 Pi 62 94

Pave =
n
75 70
65+62+80+94+75+85+100+70+75+67+88
Pave =
11
85
75

67
Pave = 78.2727 mm
100

88
 ISOHYETAL METHOD
n
Ai
Pave = ෍ wi Pi wi =
AT
i=1

pi (mm) Area (m2 ) wi wi pi (mm)

57.5 0.0003 0.4546 3.1970

62.5 0.0007 1.0412 7.9500

67.5 0.0008 1.2262 10.1183

72.5 0.0008 1.2704 11.2593

77.5 0.0008 1.1923 11.2918

82.5 0.0007 1.1124 11.2200

87.5 0.0006 0.8928 9.5463

92.5 0.0004 0.6604 7.4648

97.5 0.0002 0.3321 3.9585

Total: 0.0053 76.0058

 THIESSEN METHOD
n
Ai
Pave = ෍ wi Pi wi =
AT
i=1

Point Rainfall
Rain Gauge Area (m2 ) wi wi pi (mm)
(mm)

1 65 0.0009 0.2037 13.2427

2 62 0.0006 0.1280 7.9356

3 80 0.0005 0.1135 9.0822

4 94 0.0006 0.1232 11.5799

5 75 0.0001 0.0247 1.8514

6 85 0.0003 0.0687 5.8415

7 100 0.0007 0.1432 14.3211

8 70 0.0003 0.0658 4.6070

9 75 0.0003 0.0576 4.3199

10 67 0.0002 0.0492 3.2994

11 88 0.0001 0.0223 1.9603

Total: 78.0411
0.0046
 PART II. Estimating Peak Runoff by RATIONAL METHOD

Return Period, T = 25 years

Average slope of the catchment, S = 0.006 KIRPICH’S FORMULA
Length of the farthest point, L = 94000 m t c = 0.01947 L0.77 S −0.385
𝒕c =942.0765 minutes

LAND AREA RUNOFF RAINFALL INTENSITY (i) (Baler IDF equation)

COVER COEFFICIENT T 0.111
i = 688.65
Cultivated 2902.9 0.25 t c 0.576
land mm
i = 19.0588
Build-up 113.1 0.55 hr

Grassland 113.1 0.25 PEAK FLOW

Trees 565.5 0.55 Q P =CAi
AcT = 1164930000 m2
Watershed 75.4 0.5 mm 1m 1hr
2
Q P = 1164930000m (19.0588 )( )( )
hr 1000mm 3600s
m3
Q P =6167.2789 s
 QUALITATIVE HYDROLOGY

PAGSANGAHAN RIVER

Pagsangahan river is a stream and is located in ormoc

city, philippines. the estimate terrain elevation above sea level
is 4 metres. variant forms of spelling for pagsangahan river or
in other languages: patsanhan river, pagsangahun river,
pagsangahan, pagsangahan river, patsanhan river.
 PART I. HYDROGRAPHS

MONTH 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

January 0 1048.62 724.45 84.20 3237.94
February 0 1008.62 242.19 316.83 1081.38
March 26.18 661.99 148.96 910.94 465.37
April 23.39 400.27 165.20 508.19 1813.10
May 0 424.12 167.23 500.19 5168.51
June 150.76 481.94 118.86 331.98 5168.51
July 454.25 548.70 177.55 325.51 1247.76
August 488.99 592.98 162.51 313.74 825.74
September 0 593.73 121.81 352.22 564.81
October 795.63 656.81 614.25 378.55 1570.82
November 850.24 399.07 1065.16 814.57 984.07
December 2244.40 944.68 97.81 3015.34 616.23
MONTH 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
January 1493.79 4278.17 1956.30 1479.26 1540.14
February 328.66 3180.70 2637.75 1030.65 387.80
March 260.05 2978.79 3312.52 884.01 505.51
April 141.99 636.57 861.99 0 346.01
May 162.33 1557.27 237.65 0 167.49
June 147.01 561.17 225.91 0 153.00
July 406.64 2596.57 296.32 304.74 431.00
August 332.52 776.94 281.64 598.44 176.90
September 362.86 2966.59 1204.34 217.63 3000.55
October 1984.18 832.15 641.07 604.48 820.43
November 3504.43 2309.83 989.09 2768.18 0
December 5441.40 3984.93 1643.33 2955.42 0
TABLE 1.0 Monthly Discharge of Pagsangahan River (m3Τs)
 DECEMBER (2005)

DAYS STREAMFLOW DRH 24 UH DAYS STREAMFLOW DRH 24 UH

3 3
(m ) (m )
1 23.49 0 0 17 246.48 223.79 1.6885

2 22.69 0 0 18 159.82 137.13 1.0346

3 28.89 6.20 0.0523 19 170.75 148.06 1.1171

4 22.69 0 0 20 85.54 62.85 0.4742

5 22.69 0 0 21 60.67 37.98 0.2866

6 189.85 167.16 1.2612 22 46.13 23.44 0.1769

7 184.62 161.93 1.2218 23 41.09 18.40 0.1388

8 139.3 116.61 0.8798 24 33.97 11.28 0.0851

9 72.11 49.42 0.3729 25 33.01 10.32 0.0779

10 48.52 25.83 0.1949 26 30.21 7.52 0.0567

11 50.35 27.66 0.2087 27 60.67 37.98 0.2866

12 35.41 12.72 0.0960 28 55.39 32.70 0.2467

13 32.05 9.36 0.0706 29 45.57 22.88 0.1726

14 31.09 8.40 0.0634 30 54.74 32.05 0.2418

15 102.99 80.30 0.6059 31 51.57 28.88 0.2179

16 62.05 39.36 0.2970

TABLE 2.0 Daily discharge for the month of December year 2005

Baseflow: 22.69 m3s Total discharge: 1534.01 m3s

Volume: 132538464 m3 Runoff depth: 132.5385 m
DRH= Streamflow – Baseflow
For 24hr UH:
Total discharge= Σ DRH= 1534.01 m3s
Volume= 1534.01 m3s x 24 hrs x 3600 s= 132538464 m3
Rd= volumearea= 132538464 m3100 km2 (1000 km21km) 2(100cm1m)2= 132.5385 cm
24-Hour UH= DRHRd
PART II. FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS
Return Period, TR Peak Discharge, Q
(years) (m3 Τs)
100 3798.33
11 2020.65
5.50 1394.61
3.6667 1079.37
2.75 1033.68
2.20 987.99
1.8333 785.90
1.5714 670.03
1.375 246.48
1.2222 136.05
1.10 100.23
TABLE 3.0 Weibull Distribution N+1
TR =
m
 Peak Discharge z z-z 2 2 3
(z-z) (z-z) (z-z)
(m3 Τs) n-1
2020.65 3.3055 0.5315 0.2825 0.0314 0.1501
1394.61 3.1445 0.3705 0.1372 0.0152 0.0508
1079.37 3.0332 0.2592 0.0672 0.0075 0.0174
1033.68 3.0144 0.2404 0.0578 0.0064 0.0139
987.99 2.9948 0.2208 0.0487 0.0054 0.0108
785.90 2.8954 0.1214 0.0147 0.0016 0.0018
670.03 2.8261 0.0521 0.0027 0.0003 0.0001
246.48 2.3918 -0.3822 0.1461 0.0162 -0.0558
136.05 2.1337 -0.6403 0.4100 0.0456 -0.2625
100.23 2.0010 -0.7730 0.5975 0.0664 -0.4619

TABLE 4.0 Log-Pearson Type III Distribution

z = 2.7740 σz = 0.4428 Cs = −0.8564 KZ = 1.6918 ZT = 3.5231 XT = 3335.0320 m3 Τs

N Σ(z−z)3 10 (−0.5353)
z = logQ (z−z) 2 Cs =
3
= =−0.8564
σz = Σ = 0.1961=0.4428 (N−1)(N−2)(σz ) (9)(8)(0.4428) 3
(N−1)

Cs KZ By interpolation:
-0.9 1.660
-0.8564 x −0.9−(−0.8) 1.660−1.733
= ; x = KZ = 1.6918
-0.8 1.733 −0.9−(−0.8564) 1.660−x

ZT = z + KZ σz = 2.7740 + 1.6918 0.4428 = 3.5231

TR =100 years
XT = antilog ZT = antilog 3.5231 = 3335.0320 m3 Τs
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