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AN OPERATIONAL WATERSHED MODEL: STEP 1‐B: REGULATION OF WATER LEVELS IN THE KISSIMMEE RIVER BASIN 1
Author(s) -
Sinha Lalit K.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1970.tb00464.x
Subject(s) - spillway , watershed , elevation (ballistics) , hydrology (agriculture) , drainage basin , flood control , structural basin , environmental science , flow (mathematics) , head (geology) , water level , flood myth , geology , geotechnical engineering , computer science , geomorphology , engineering , geography , mathematics , geometry , cartography , structural engineering , archaeology , machine learning
Step‐IB in the first phase of an “Operational Watershed Model” recently initiated by the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District for managing its water resources is to compute water surface elevation, spatially and temporally, in the Kissimmee River Basin system of reservoirs, channels and spillways. An approach is based upon the principles of gradually varied flow. Mathematical relationships to compute lake stage as a function of storage, and to compute discharge through the control structures as a function of gate opening and differential head across the structures are developed. Their feasibility for application is clearly demonstrated by the simulated mean daily water surface elevation for a period of two years on the tail side of one typical gated spillway and on the head side of another gated spillway.