Code:nec/DCE/Hydr/HKS/2007/Tuto1

Nepal Engineering College

Changunarayan, Bhaktapur
Program: B.E. Civil Tutorial 1: Introduction
Year: III Instructor: Dr. Hari Krishna Shrestha
Engineering Hydrology
1. A catchment of 140 km2 received 120 cm of rainfall in a year. At the outlet of the
catchment the flow in the stream draining the catchment was found to have an
average rate of 2.0 m3/s for 3 months, 3.0 m3/s for 6 months and 5.0 m3/s for 3
months. (i) What is the runoff coefficient of the catchment? (ii) If the
afforestation of the catchment reduced the runoff coefficient to 0.50, what is the
increase in the abstraction from precipitation due to infiltration, evaporation and
transpiration, for the same annual rainfall of 120 cm?
2. Estimate the constant rate of withdrawal from a 1375 ha reservoir in a month of
30 days during which the reservoir level dropped by 0.75 m in spite of an average
inflow into the reservoir of 0.5 Mm3/day. During the month the average seepage
loss from the reservoir was 2.5 cm, total precipitation on the reservoir was 18.5
cm and the total evaporation was 9.5 cm.
3. A river reach had a flood wave passing through it. At a given the storage of water
in the reach was estimated as 15.5 ha.m. What would be the storage in the reach
after an interval of 3 hours if the average inflow and outflow during the time
period are 14.2 m3/s and 10.6 m3/s, respectively?
4. A catchment has four sub-areas. The annual precipitation and evaporation from
each of the sub-areas are given below. Assume that there is no change in the
groundwater storage on an annual basis and calculate for the whole catchment the
values of annual average (i) precipitation and (ii) evaporation. What are the
annual runoff coefficients for the sub-areas and for the total catchment taken as a
whole?
Sub-area Area (m2) Annual Precipitation (mm) Annual Evaporation (mm)
A 10.7 1030 530
B 3.0 830 438
C 8.2 900 430
D 17.0 1300 600

Source of the problems 1 to 4: Subramanya, K. 1994. Engineering Hydrology, 2nd ed.,

Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Ltd. New Delhi, ISBN: 0-07-462449-8, pp.
12-13.

Students are informed to check the questions of semester-end examinations of

pervious semesters to familiarize themselves with the types and patterns of questions.