1. CLASS PLAN RIVER BEHAVIOR FLOW GAUGING MANNING’S EQUATION
BANKFULL DISCHARGE
DISCUSS MCPHEE

2. RIVERS On Huntington, in water Warm clothes, food, $, Daily Bread
Measure discharge - survey and velocity
Trace flow
Compare pools and riffles
Field estimate of bankfull stage

3. Idealized flow patterns
Alluvial, meandering river
Dye tracing

4. Channel Mobility Watts Branch, MD

5. Downstream Organization
Survey one of each type
Calculate discharge for one of each type
COMPARE

6. FLOW GAUGING QUANTIFY VOLUME OF WATER MOVING THROUGH CHANNEL
NEED CHANNEL GEOMETRY
NEED VELOCITY

7. Survey Across Stream
Distance
Velocity
Water Depth

8. Flow meter for measuring water speed

9. Divide and Conquer

10. Add up the pieces

11. From counts to speed

12. Manning Equation

13. SLOPE

14. Wetted Perimeter

16. Try to define in field using
Flow Levels
Bank full flow
About once a year
Try to define in field using
observations

17. Extreme Floods
How does the Huntington Fit?

18. DEFINE BASIN AREA
COUNT BOXES
OR USE
DIGITIZER