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Watersheds

Outcomes Read a contour map Delineate a watershed Determine slopes/lengths Determine a drainage area

We All Live in a Watershed When water runs off your property where does it go?

Importance of Watersheds Pollutants can enter waterbodies Silt from construction sites, farms, erosion Septic system waste Fertilizers, pesticides Road salt Other pollutants (industry/commercial)

Watershed Protection SPDES (stormwater pollution discharge and elimination system) Watershed action plans Public Involvement (stewardship)

Watershed Any particular point on a water channel (stream, ditch, gutter, etc.) has an associated watershed area The boundaries of a watershed are ridge lines (high points) You can identify ridge lines by contour lines on topographic maps

Contour Maps-Lines showing constant elevation

Hints for reading contour maps Flow paths are perpendicular to contour lines (why?) Streams---Contour lines are concave (think V’s) Ridges----Contour lines are convex (think noses) Peaks of mountains and depressions (swamps, ponds) usually show as small circular areas Contour lines close together indicate steep slopes Contour lines which are far apart indicate flat slopes Highlight rivers/creeks to your point of interest (it also sometimes helps to highlight them outside your point of interest) Ignore roads; ideally, any construction project shouldn’t shift water to another watershed

Steps-Delineating Drainage Areas Identify your point of interest Identify the channels/subchannels (V’s) Identify the hill tops (circles) Draw from hill-top to hill-top along the ridges (noses)

Delineate Watershed Class Exercise (Handout Figure II-1) Spend 5 minutes delineating watershed

Sub-Drainage Areas Drainage areas may be broken up into sub-catchments or sub-drainage areas because: Drainage areas are usually modeled as homogeneous systems Streams are branched Points of interest need to be isolated

Delineate Subareas Class exercise Spend 5 minutes delineating subareas for each reach Handout answers (Figure II-2 and II-3)

Break

Determining Drainage Areas Stripping Method Grid Method Planimeter Software Programs (GIS)

Stripping/Grid Methods http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/5-430-00-1/fig6-13.gif

Planimeter

Software http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc99/proceed/papers/pap676/p6764.gif

Determining Lengths Edge of Paper Tic Method String Method (non-stretch string) Don’t use “as the crow flies” Check scale (1”=2000’ or other) 20

Data Collection Land Use Soil Characteristics Slope (overland and channel) Channel/Overland flow lengths % Impervious Channel cross-sections Roughness characteristics Storage (ponds, swamps, wetlands)

Sources Field reconnaisance Aerial Photographs NRCS Soil Maps USGS Maps/Other Contour Maps Planimetric mapping Historical engineering studies Survey Data Soil Boring Data

Common Conversions 1 acre = 43,560 ft2 1mi2 = 640 acres 1 hectare = (100 m)2 = 10,000 m2 1 acre = 0.405 hectare 1 hectare = 2.46 acres 1 meter = 3.2808 feet 1 foot = 0.3045 meter

Downloading USGS Maps *.pdf http://store.usgs.gov/b2c_usgs/b2c/start.do

Other tools: Image capture software: Snipping Tool (on engineering computers) In adobe reader use tools, select and zoom, snapshot tool, to capture images USGS pdf’s---click on images, click off orthoimages to turn off the background photogrammetry

Streamstats https://water.usgs.gov/osw/streamstats/

Other Sources NRCS pdf – determining watershed http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/ http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/25563.html

Next Lecture Precipitation Definition What affects it? Return period Probability of an event occurring over a time interval Design Frequencies IDF Curves