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1 ENGINEERING HYDROLOGY Prof. Rajesh Bhagat Asst. Professor Civil Engineering Department Yeshwantrao Chavan College Of Engineering Nagpur B. E. (Civil Engg.) M. Tech. (Enviro. Engg.) GCOE, Amravati VNIT, Nagpur Mobile No.: / ID:- rajeysh7bhagat@gmail.com Website:-

2 UNIT-IV Statistical Methods: Statistics in hydrological analysis, probability and probability distribution. Floods: Causes and effects, Factors affecting peak flows and its estimation, Flood routing and Flood forecasting. Frequency analysis. Economic planning for flood control.

3 Importance of Statistics and Probability in Hydrology: 1) If the outcome of a process can be precisely predicted is known as deterministic process. 2) But in some cases, there is uncertainty or unpredictability regarding outcome. 3) Average weather condition are same from year to year, but yearly rainfall at a given place is not same every year. 4) In all such a cases, process is treated as a probabilistic process and outcome governed by some probability law.

4 Flood 1) Any flow which is relatively high and which overtops the natural or artificial banks in any reach of a river may be called a flood. 2) Flood is the most worldwide natural disaster. 3) It occurs in every country and wherever there is rainfall or coastal hazards.

5 Different types of flood:- Local flood:- caused due to high intensity of local rainfall which generate higher surface run-off. Urbanization, Surface sealing and loss of infiltration capacity increases the surface runoff causes local flood. River floods: - River flood occur when the river volume exceeds due to excess of run-off beyond the river capacity. The river levels rise slowly due to high intensity rainfall for long lasting duration. Flash floods:-flash floods occur as a result of the rapid accumulation and release of runoff waters from upstream mountainous areas, which can be caused by very heavy rainfall, bursting of clouds, landslides, sudden break-up of an ice jam or failure of flood control works. Coastal floods:- High tides and storm caused by tropical depressions and cyclones can cause coastal floods in urban areas, low-lying land near the sea in general. Tidal effects can keep the river levels high for long periods of time and sustain flooding.

6 Major parameters factors responsible for the occurrences of flood: 1) Climate:- Due to global warming or climate change many subsystems of the global water cycle are effected causing an increase of flood magnitude as well as flood frequency. 2) Nature of collecting basin:- A collecting basin is an area where surface water from rain converges to a single point, it is usually exit of basin, where water join another water body, such as a river. Larger the area of basin more will be the water receiving capacity. 3) Nature of the streams: - Water flowing through a channel, such as a stream, has the ability to transport sediment. Some percolates deep into the ground and replenishes the groundwater supply. 4) Vegetative cover:- Trees reduce top soil erosion, prevent harmful land pollutants contained in the soil from getting into our waterways, slow down water run-off, and ensure that our groundwater supplies are continually being replenished. 5) Rainfall: - It is difficult to predict and measure the precise changes in the hydrological cycle because of the processes such as evaporation, transport, and precipitation.

7 CAUSES OF FLOOD 1) Intense rainfall 2) Melting of snow CAUSES OF FLOODING 1) Culvert, drain and gully entry blockage (partial or total) Dumped rubbish. Floating debris, including leaves and branches. Sediment deposition 2) Poorly maintained urban watercourses (silted, overgrown with vegetation, or blocked with rubbish.) 3) Bridge, culvert or tunnel waterway capacity exceeded. 4) Failure of drainage pump or jammed sluice gate. 5) High water level in receiving river that flows back up the drain or sewer.

8 FLOOD:- 1) Design of culvert, bridges, drainage work and irrigation diversion works, needs a reliable estimates of the flood. 2) The maximum flood that any structure can safely pass is called the design flood. 3) As the magnitude of the design flood increase, the capital cost of the structure also increases but the probability of annual damages will decrease. 4) Standard Project Flood (SPF) is the estimate of the flood likely to occur from the most severe combination of the meteorological & hydrological conditions, which are reasonably characteristics of the drainage basin being considered, but excluding extremely rare combination. 5) Maximum Probable Flood (MPF) differs from the SPF in that it includes the extremely rare and catastrophic floods and is usually confined to spillway design of very high dams. The SPF is usually around 80% of the MPF for the basin.

9 DESIGN FLOOD:- 1) It is the flood adopted for the design of hydraulic structure like spillways, bridges, flood banks, etc. 2) It may be MPF or SPF or flood of any desired recurrence interval. 3) The methods used in the estimation of the design flood can be grouped as under: 1) Physical indication of past flood 2) Envelop curves 3) Empirical flood formulae 4) Rational method 5) Unit hydrograph application 6) Frequency analysis orstatistical method

10 Rational Method for Estimation of Design Flood:- 1) The time of concentration is the maximum time required by the surface runoff to reach the basin outlet. 2) When storms continues beyond concentration time every part of the catchment would be contributing to the runoff at outlet and therefore it represents condition of peak runoff. 3) It is given by Q = C x A x I Where, C is runoff coefficient or impermeability coefficient = (runoff/rainfall) A = catchment area I = intensity of rainfall. If different portions of catchment have different runoff coefficient then C is calculated by Ceq = (C 1 A 1 + C 2 A 2 + C 3 A 3 ) / (A 1 + A 2 + A 3 )

11 Rational Method forestimation of Design Flood:- 1) Q = C x A x I 2) The rational formula is found to be suitable for a peak flow prediction in small catchment up to 50 km2 in area. 3) Application in urban drainage designs and in the design of small culverts and bridges. Rainfall Intensity, I tc,p = (KT x ) / (t c + a) m Probability exceedance P : (return period T = 1/P) K, a, x and m are constant. Kirpich Equation, t c = L 0.77 S t c = Time of concentration in minutes L = Max. Length of traveller of water in meter S = Slope of catchment = H / L H = Difference in elevation

12 What is a return period? 1) The probability that events such as floods, wind storms & earthquake will occur is often expressed as a return period. 2) The inverse of probability (generally expressed in %), it gives the estimated time interval between events of a similar size or intensity. 3) For example, the return period of a flood might be 100 years; otherwise expressed as its probability of occurring being 1/100, or 1% in any one year. This does not mean that if a flood with such a return period occurs, then the next will occur in about one hundred years' time - instead, it means that, in any given year, there is a 1% chance that it will happen, regardless of when the last similar event was. Or, put differently, it is 10 times less likely to occur than a flood with a return period of 10 years (or a probability of 10%). 12

13 What is a return period? 1) It represents the avg. number of years within which a given event will be equaled or exceeded.. 2) It is calculated by using Weibuls formula, T = (n + 1) / m Where T is Return period, n is number of years in record & m is the order or rank ( of highest observed flood) 1) After either the partial or annual series is complied, the items are arranged in descending order of magnitude and assigned an order or rank, starting with 1 for the highest observed flood. 13

14 1) An urban catchment has an area of 0.85 km2. the slope of the catchment is and the maximum length of travel of water is 950 m. The maximum depth of rainfall with a 25 years return period is as below:- Duration, Minute Depth of rainfall, mm if culvert for drainage at the outlet of this area is to designed for a return period of 25 years, estimates the required peak flow rate by assuming the runoff coefficient as 0.3. Sol:- Time of concentration by Kirpich Equation, t c = L 0.77 S t c = x ( ) x (0.006) = 27.4 minutes Max. Depth of rainfall for 24.7 minute duration (by interpolation): (50-40) / (30-20) = (50 - x) / ( ) x = 47.4 mm = max. Depth of rainfall for 27.4 minutes. Avg intensity of rainfall = I tc,p = (47.4 / 27.4 ) 60 = mm/hr Q = C x A x I = (0.3 x x 0.85 x 1000) / 60 x 60 = 7.35 m3 / s

15 2) If in the urban area, the land use of the area and the corresponding runoff coefficient are as given below calculate the equivalent runoff coefficient. Land Use Area (ha) Runoff coefficient Roads Lawn Residential area Industrial area Sol: Equivalent runoff coefficient Ceq = (C 1 A 1 + C 2 A 2 + C 3 A 3 + C 4 A 4 ) / (A 1 + A 2 + A 3 +A 4 ) Ceq = ((0.7x8) + (0.1x17) + (0.3x50) + (0.8x10)) / ( ) = 0.36

16 3) A small watershed consists of 1.5 km2 of cultivate area (C=0.2), 2.5 km2 under forest (C=0.1) and 1.0 km2 under grass cover (C=0.35). There is a fall of 22 m in a watercourse length of 1.8 km. The intensity frequency-duration relation for the area may be taken as I = (80 x T 0.2 r ) / (t c + 13) 0.46 Where I is in cm/hr, T is is in minutes. Estimate the peak rate of runoff for a 25 year frequency. Sol: length of water course = 1.8 km = 1800 m & Fall in the elevation = 22 m S = 22 / 1800 = t c = x (L 0.77 ) x (S) t c = x ( ) x (0.0122) = 34 minutes I = (80 x T 0.2 r ) / (t c + 13) 0.46 I = (80 x ) / ( ) 0.46 = 25.9 cm/hr Ceq = (C 1 A 1 + C 2 A 2 + C 3 A 3 ) / (A 1 + A 2 + A 3 ) Ceq = ((0.2x1.5) + (0.1x2.5) + (0.35x1)) / ( ) = 0.18

17 3) A small watershed consists of 1.5 km2 of cultivate area (C=0.2), 2.5 km2 under forest (C=0.1) and 1.0 km2 under grass cover (C=0.35). There is a fall of 22 m in a watercourse length of 1.8 km. The intensity frequency-duration relation for the area may be taken as I = (80 x T 0.2 r ) / (t c + 13) 0.46 Where I is in cm/hr, T is is in minutes. Estimate the peak rate of runoff for a 25 year frequency. Sol: S = T c = 34 minutes I = 25.9 cm/hr = m / hr Ceq = 0.18 Q = C x A x I = (0.18 x 5 x x 0.259) / 60 x 60 = m3 / s

18 4) A bridge is proposed to constant across a river having catchment area of 2027 hectors. The catchment has a slope of and length of travel of water is 20270m. Estimates 30 years flood, the intensity frequency duration relationship is given by I = (9876 x T 0.2 r ) / (t c + 45) 0.98 Where I is in mm/hr, Tr is in years & tc is in minutes. Assume runoff coefficient as Sol:- Time of concentration by Kirpich Equation, t c = L 0.77 S t c = x ( ) x (0.007) = minutes Max. intensity of rainfall = I tc,p = ((9876 x )) / (( ) 0.98 ) = mm/hr = cm/hr A = 2027 Ha = Km2 Q = C x A x I Peak Discharge, Q = 2.78 x C x A x I = (2.78 x 0.35 x x 20.27) = cumec

19 Estimation of Design Flood For A Particular Return Period: 1) The return period is calculated by using Weibull s formula: T r = ( n + 1) / m T r = return period in years n = number of years of record m = order number 2) Return period represents the avg no. Of years within which a given event will be equalled or exceeded. Probability of Exceedance, p = 1 / Tr 3) If the probability of occurrence of an event is p, then the probability of its no-occurrence is q = 1- p 4) Probability of an event not occurring at all in n successive years would be equal to q n q n = (1- p) n Probability of an event occurring at least once in n successive years, = 1 q n = 1- (1 - p) n This probability is called risk.

20 A flood of a certain magnitude has a return period of 20 years. What is the probability that a flood of this magnitude may occurs in next 15 years. Return period represents the avg no. Of years within which a given event will be equalled or exceeded. Probability of Exceedance, p = 1 / Tr p = 1 / 20 = 0.05 Probability of an event not occurring at all in n successive years would be equal to q n q n = (1- p) n = (1 0.05) 15 = 0.46 Probability of an event occurring at least once in n successive years, Risk = 1 q n = 1- (1 - p) n Risk = = 0.54

21 The flood data analysis at river site yielded mean of m3/s & standard deviation of 650 m3/s for what discharge the structure should be designed so as to provide 95% assurance that the structure will not fail in next 50 years. Percentage of assurance = 95 % Percentage risk = 5% Risk = 1 q n = 1- (1 - p) n Probability of Exceedance, p = 1 / Tr 0.05 = 1- (1-1 / Tr) 50 Tr = years Y T = - ln ln (T / (T - 1)) = - ln ln ( / ( )) =6.88 X T = X + K. σ n-1 = K. 650 K = Frequency factor = (Y T y n ) / S n = = ( ) / X T = X + K. σ n-1 = K. 650 X T = m3/s

22 Estimation of Design Flood For A Particular Return Period: 1) The return period is calculated by using Weibull s formula: T r = ( n + 1) / m T r = return period in years n = number of years of record m = order number 2) Return period represents the avg no. Of years within which a given event will be equalled or exceeded. Probability of Exceedance = 1 / Tr = P 3) If a graph plotted between flood magnitude and its return period in simple plane coordinates, the plot is called probability or empirical distribution. Extrapolation for large return period may yield more result hence following method are used: A. Gumble s method B. Log Pearson Type III Method

23 Gumble s Method: X T = X + K. σ n-1 X T = value of flood magnitude of return period T years X = mean value of past flood record = ( X) / n = X K = Frequency factor = (Y T y n ) / S n Y T = - ln ln (T / (T - 1)) No. Of years of records, n > 50 we use y n = & S n = σ n-1 = Standard deviation = ( ( ( Xi X ) 2 ) / ( n 1 ) )

24 Gumble s Probability Distribution Method for Prediction of Flood Peak: 1) This method of estimating the flood peak was given by Gumbel and is known as Gumbel s Distribution method. 2) This is a flood frequency method which is most widely used in hydrological analysis & meteorological studies.

25 Procedure for Estimating Peak Flood: 1) From the given discharge data & for sample size n, X & Sx or σ n are to be computed. Sx OR σ n-1 = Standard deviation = ( ( ( Xi X ) 2 ) / ( n 1 ) ) 2) y n & σ n are to be computed for given sample size, n. (assumed if not given & ) 1) For given Tr or T, Y T is to be calculated by Y T = - ln ln (T / (T - 1)) 2) Frequency factor (K or K T ) is calculated by K = (Y T y n ) / S n 3) Now the magnitude of flood X T can be obtained from X T = X + K. σ n-1

26 Flood frequency computation for the river Chambal at Gandhisagar Dam by using Gumble s Method, yielded the following results: Return Period, T (Years) Peak Flood, m3/s Estimates the flood magnitude in this river with a return period of 500 years. Sol: X T = X + K. σ n-1 X 100 = X + K 100. σ n-1 & X 50 = X + K 50. σ n-1 X 100 X 50 = (K K 50 ) σ n = (K K 50 ) σ n = (K K 50 ) σ n-1

27 Flood frequency computation for the river Chambal at Gandhisagar Dam by using Gumble s Method, yielded the following results: Return Period, T (Years) Peak Flood, m3/s Estimates the flood magnitude in this river with a return period of 500 years. Sol: X T = X + K. σ n-1 X 100 = X + K 100. σ n-1 & X 50 = X + K 50. σ n-1 (K K 50 ) σ n-1 = X 100 X 50 = = 5491 K T = (Y T Y n ) / S n K 100 = (Y 100 Y n ) / S n & K 50 = (Y 50 Y n ) / S n (Y Y 50 ) (σ n-1 / S n )= 5491 No. Of years of records, n > 50 we use Y n = & S n = Y T = - ln ln (T / (T - 1)) Y 100 = - ln ln (100 / (100-1)) & Y 50 = - ln ln (50 / (50-1)) Y 100 = & Y 50 =

28 (K K 50 ) σ n-1 = 5491 K T = (Y T Y n ) / S n K 100 = (Y 100 Y n ) / S n & K 50 = (Y 50 Y n ) / S n (Y Y 50 ) (σ n-1 / S n )= 5491 (σ n-1 / S n )= 5491 / (Y Y 50 ) (σ n-1 / S n )= 5491 / ( ) = 7864 For T = 500 years Y T = - ln ln (T / (T - 1)) Y 500 = - ln ln (500/ (500 1)) = (Y Y 100 ) (σ n-1 / S n ) = X ( ) (7864) = X X 500 = say m3/s

29 Flood Routing:- 1) It is the technique of determining the flood hydrograph at a section of a river by utilising the data of flood flow at one or more upstream sections. 2) It is also used in analysis of a flood forecasting, flood protection, reservoir design, spillway design etc. 3) The broad categories of flood routing are reservoir routing and channel routing. 4) In reservoir routing the effect of reservoir storage on a flood hydrograph is analysed. This is used in design, location and sizing of the capacity of reservoir. 5) In channel routing the effect of storage of a specified channel reach on the flood hydrograph is studied. It is used in flood forecasting and flood protection.

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