HYDROLOGY & WATER

RESOURCE ENGINEERING
Subject Code: 3160610
BE Civil – III Year – 6th Semester
Academic Year 2020 - 21

ASSIGNMENT
FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

SARVAJANIK EDUCATION SOCIETY

SARVAJANIK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
DR R. K. DESAI MARG, ATHWALINES, SURAT 395001
…………towards progressive civilization
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This assignment is compulsory for all students.
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Use of colour is not necessary. Neat and clean work will give more marks.
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Submit assignment to the concern faculty.
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Faculty In charge Dr. Pratima Patel

Prof. Payal Zaveri Head, FCE

Dr. Manisha Vashi SCET, Surat

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 LIST OF ASSIGNMENT

Sr. No. List of Assignment Page No.

Instructions I

List of Assignment II

1. Assignment 1: Precipitation 1

2. Assignment 2: Reservoir & S – Curve 2

3. Assignment 3: Ground Water & Flood Routing 3

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ASSIGNMENT 1
PRECIPITATION

1) In a certain river basin, there are four raingauge stations, with their normal annual
precipitation amounting to 800, 520, 450 and 390 mm, respectively. Determine the
optimum number of raingauges in the catchment, if it is desired to limit the error in the
mean value of rainfall in the catchment to 10 %.

2) The rates of rainfall for successive 30 minute period of a 3-hour storm are 1.5, 3.2, 4.3,
2.7, 2.1 and 1.2 cm/hr. The surface runoff in response to the storm is estimated to be 3.0
cm. Determine ɸ-index and W-index. Consider a total of depression and interception
losses of 1.0 cm.

3) The direct runoff hydrograph resulting from a 5.0 cm effective rainfall of 6 h duration is
given below. Determine the area of the catchment and the ordinates of the 6 h Unit
hydrograph. The ordinates of flood hydrograph from a 4 hour rainfall are given below.
Derive the ordinates of 4 hour unit hydrograph for a catchment area of 640 km2.

Time
0 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40
(in h)
Discharge
30 68 205 410 330 254 195 133 95 58 30
(m3/s)

4) A storm with 11 cm precipitation produces a direct surface runoff of 6.2 cm. The time
distribution of the storm is given in the following table:-

Time
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
(in h)
Discharge
0.5 1.0 1.8 2.6 2.0 1.5 1.2 0.4
(m3/s)

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ASSIGNMENT 2
RESERVOIR & S – CURVE

1) The lower portion of the capacity – elevation curve of a proposed irrigation reservoir,
drainage 20 km2 of catchment, is represented by the following data :
Elevation Capacity
(in m) (in ha.m)
RL 600 24.2
RL 602 26.2
RL 604 30.3
RL 606 36.8

The rate of silting for the catchment has been assessed to be 300 m 3/km2/year. Assuming
the life of reservoir to be 50 years, compute the dead storage and the lowest sill level if the
main canal is 6 km long with a bed slope of 1 in 1000, and canal bed level at the tail end
is at RL 594.5 m. The FSD of the canal at the head is 80 cm. The crop water requirement
is assessed as 250 ha.m.

2) The monthly run-off volume (in Mm3) for a period of two water years recorded at a stream
gauging site are 3, 6, 16, 30, 18, 15, 10, 8, 6, 4, 3, 1, 2, 5, 17, 28, 20, 15, 12, 7, 5, 4, 3 and
2. Determine the size of the reservoir proposed at the gauging site, if is to
maintain an assured supply of 8.33 Mm3/month. The water year may be taken as June to
May and assume each month of 30 days. If the reservoir is half – full at the beginning of
the year, locate the periods of excess flow and depletion in the reservoir.

3) Table 1 gives the details about the average seasonal discharges of a river for 12 years.
Determine the storage capacity required to maintain a flow of 475 cumecs throughout the
year.

ASSIGNMENT 2: RESERVOIR & S – CURVE 2

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Table 1
16th June to 30 Sept. 1st Oct – 31st March 1st April – 15th June
Year
(in cumecs) (in cumecs) (in cumecs)
1960-61 1050 300 50
1961-62 3000 250 40
1962-63 3500 370 90
1963-64 2000 150 120
1964-65 1200 350 65
1965-66 1400 400 100
1966-67 3600 200 80
1967-68 3000 150 120
1968-69 700 210 50
1969-70 800 120 80
1970-71 2400 320 120
1971-72 3200 280 80

4) The following are ordinates of 4 – hr unit hydrograph. Determine ordinates of a 12 – hr

unit hydrograph for the catchment by S – curve method.
Time
0 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40
(in h)
O.U.H of 4 hr
0 50 100 110 140 90 80 60 40 20 0
(m3/sec)

5) The ordinates of 12 – hr unit hydrograph are determined in Example – 4. Determine the

ordinates of 4 – hr unit hydrograph by S – curve method.

6) The ordinates of a 4 h UH of a basin of area 300 km2 measured at 1 h intervals are 6, 36,
66, 91, 106, 93, 79, 68, 58, 49, 41, 34, 27, 23, 17, 13, 9, 6, 3 and 1.5 m3/s respectively.
Obtain the ordinates of a 3 h UH for the basin using the S – curve technique.

ASSIGNMENT 2: RESERVOIR & S – CURVE 3

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ASSIGNMENT 3
GROUND WATER & FLOOD ROUTING

1) A tube well of 30 cm diameter penetrates fully in an artesian aquifer. The strainer length
is 20 m. Calculate the yield from the well under a drawdown of 4 m. the aquifer consists
of sand of effective size of 0.2 mm having coefficient of permeability equal to 60 m/day.
Assume radius of drawdown equal to 150 meters.

2) A 40 cm diameter well completely penetrates a confined aquifer of permeability 45 m/day.

The length of strainers is 20 m. under steady state of pumping, the drawdown at the well
was found to be 3 m and radius of influence was 300 m. calculate the discharge.

3) Design a tube well for the following data:

a) Yield Required = 0.081 cumec
b) Thickness of confined Aquifer = 30 m
c) Radius of circle of influence = 300 m
d) Permeability Co Efficient = 60 m/day
e) Drawdown = 5.1 m

4) During a recuperation test, the water in an open well was depressed, by pumping by 2.6
m and it recuperated 1.9 meters in 90 minute. Find:
a) Yield from a well of 5m diameter under a depression head of 3.5 meters.
b) The diameter of the well to yield 10 liters/second under a depression head of 3
meters.

5) Water is pumped out at the rate of 2500 lit/min, from a well of 0.3 m diameter, penetrating
fully in aquifer of 30 m thickness. The drawdown observed in two adjoining wells at 20
m, 120 m from the pumping well are 8.0 m and 0.6 m, respectively. Determine the average
hydraulic conductivity.

6) A fully penetrating well of dia. 0.3 m draws water from a confined aquifer of permeability
0.001 m/s and thickness 15 m. if steady state discharge is found to be 1/30
m3/s, compute the drawdown at points 10 m and 40 m from the centre of the well. Take
radius of influence of well 1000 m.

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7) On the basin of isopluvial map, the 50 year 24 hr maximum rainfall at Ahmedabad is found
to be 16 cm, determine the probability of 24 hr rainfall of magnitude equal to greater than
16 cm occurring at Ahmedabad.
a) At least once in 10 successive years.
b) Two times in 10 successive years
c) Once in 10 successive years.

8) For a river the estimated flood peaks for two return periods by the use of Gumbel’s
method are as follows:

Return Period Peak Flood

(in Years) (in M3/s)

100 435
50 395

9) The following table gives flood data for 15 years recorded at the project site on the river
from 1947 to 1961.
Discharge Discharge
Year Year
(in cumecs) (in cumecs)
1947 3120 1955 2390
1948 5810 1956 3820
1949 3100 1957 7810
1950 1735 1958 4540
1951 3640 1959 3265
1952 6610 1960 4990
1953 5270 1961 9210
1954 2300

10) Find out the recurrence interval for the flood of various magnitudes by the following
methods:
a) California method.
b) Hazen’s method.

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11) From the analysis of available data on annual flood peaks of a small stream for a period
of 35 years, the 50 year and 100 year flood have been estimated to be 680m3/s and 760
m3/s using Gumbel’s method. Estimate the 200 year flood for the river.

12) Route the following flood using Muskingum method through a reach for which K=22 hr
and x=0.25
Time
0 12 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 132 144
( in h)
Discharge
40 65 165 250 240 205 170 130 115 85 70 60 54
(in m3/s)

The out flow discharge is 40 m3/s at time t=0 also Determine the peak lag and attenuation.

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