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Urbanization and Flooding in Shades Creek Basin, Jefferson County, Alabama

A. L. Knight

The magnitude of the 25-, 50-, 100-, and 500-year floods for drainage basins having various degrees of urban development in Jefferson County, Alabama may be estimated from the graphical and mathematical relations presented in this report. The basic equations use the relations among drainage area, lag time, a length-slope parameter, and percent imperviousness for a particular drainage basin. The relations presented in this report, were used to compute water-surface profiles along Shades Creek. Flood profiles and maps were determined on the basis of main channel conditions as surveyed prior to December 1973 but assuming complete urbanization within the remaining part of the drainage basin.

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Urbanization and Flooding in Shades Creek Basin, Jefferson County, Alabama

A. L. Knight

The magnitude of the 25-, 50-, 100-, and 500-year floods for drainage basins having various degrees of urban development in Jefferson County, Alabama may be estimated from the graphical and mathematical relations presented in this report. The basic equations use the relations among drainage area, lag time, a length-slope parameter, and percent imperviousness for a particular drainage basin. The relations presented in this report, were used to compute water-surface profiles along Shades Creek. Flood profiles and maps were determined on the basis of main channel conditions as surveyed prior to December 1973 but assuming complete urbanization within the remaining part of the drainage basin.

Urbanization and Flooding in Shades Creek Basin, Jefferson County, Alabama

A. L. Knight

The magnitude of the 25-, 50-, 100-, and 500-year floods for drainage basins having various degrees of urban development in Jefferson County, Alabama may be estimated from the graphical and mathematical relations presented in this report. The basic equations use the relations among drainage area, lag time, a length-slope parameter, and percent imperviousness for a particular drainage basin. The relations presented in this report, were used to compute water-surface profiles along Shades Creek. Flood profiles and maps were determined on the basis of main channel conditions as surveyed prior to December 1973 but assuming complete urbanization within the remaining part of the drainage basin.

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Title:

Urbanization and Flooding in Shades Creek Basin, Jefferson County, Alabama

Contributors:

A. L. Knight (author)

Publication date:

1976

Size:

79 pages

Type of media:

Report

Type of material:

No indication

Language:

English

Keywords:

Hydrology & Limnology , Flooding , Flood forecasting , Urban areas , Shades Creek Basin , Drainage , Channel flow , Length , Permeability , Flow rate , Slope , Mathematical models , Regression analysis , Profiles , Maps , Tables(Data) , Alabama , Jefferson County(Alabama) , Flood frequency

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