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Department of Civil Engineering


National Institute of Technology Hamirpur (HP)
Semester Examination
ct —222
Water Resource Engineering - I
Maximum Marks: 50
Time Allowed: Three Hours

Q. NO. 1: (a) Describe and discuss a hydrological cycle with the help of a neat sketch. State water budget
equAtion and describe its significance in water resources planning.
(b)- Distinguish between (i) Infiltration capacity and infiltration rate (2, 2)

(ii) Actual and potential evapotranspiration


.(iii) Field capacity and permanent wilting point
(2x3 =-; 6)
. Q. No. 2: (a) A 6-h storm produced rainfall intensities of 7, 18, 25, 12, 10 and 3 mm/h in .successive in one-
hour intervals over a basin of 800 sq. km
. The resulting runoff is observed to be 2640 hectare- meters.
Determine 1 — index for the basin.
(3)
(b) Find out the ordinates of a storm hydrograph resulting from a 12-hr storm with rainfall of 3.5, 6.0 and 4.0
IP cm during subsequent 4-hr intervals. The ordinates of 4-hr unit hydrograph at 4-hr intervals are as follows:
0, 100,355, 510, 380, 300, 260, 225, 165, 120, 85, 55, 30, 22, 10, 0 [cumecs]
Assume an initial loss of 0.5 cm, an infiltration index of 0.25 cm/hr and a base flow of 10 cumecs.
• (7)
Q. No. 3: (a) The ordinates of unit hydrograph of 6-hr duration are given below at 2-hr intervals.
Time. (hr) 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
Q (Cumecs) 0 300 16 18
1000 2100 3500 5600 8500 10500 10000 7800
Time, (hr) 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34
Q (Comees) 5700 4800 36 .38
4100 .3440 2700 2140 1500 500 300 0
Derive unit hydrograph of 2-hr duration.
(7)

(b) Draw the sketch of a synthetic unit hydrograph. Mention various component parameters on the sketch and
also provide theequation usedto compute those component parameters.
(3)
.Q. No. 4: (a) What do you mean by design flood? Why is its computation important fo,r water resources
projects? Enumerate various methods for estimating design flood.
11/ (b) Discuss various factors affecting runoff from a catchment. (5)
(5)
OR
.Q. No.. 4: What is flood routing? Discuss various types and methods of flood routing. Discuss in detail
Modified Pul's method of reservoir routing.
Q. No. 5: (a) Write detailed notes on the following: (10)
(I)_ Flow mass curve, flow duration curve and their application
(ii) Evaporation, factors affecting and control.
(b) For a catchment of 590 sq. km (2.5x2 - - 5)
, rainfall for the month of July, 1994, along with their areas of influence for
the:starions, are given below. Calculate the average precipitation over the basin by (i) Thiessen Polygon
methods (ii) Isohyetal method.
Station A B C D E F G H
Rainfall (cm) 37.5 19 35
J K L M
45 53 52.5 56 32.5 40
Area . 30 54 32 45
of 3 8 91 15 69 79 88 70 6 30 66 55
influence (km 2) 10
Isohyet < 20 cm 20-30 cm 30-40 cm 40-50 cm 50-60 cm
Area (km 2) 3 44 82 242 219
(2.5, 2.5)

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