KWRRI Research Reports

Abstract

It has long been realized that tributary urban development and channel improvement greatly affect the flow regime in a given watershed. A previous study used the Stanford Watershed Model to derive relationships expressing how the flood peaks in Sacramento, California, might be expected to vary with changing conditions of urbanization, channelization, and tributary drainage area. In order to observe the effects of climatic setting and geographical location on these relationships, the same type of analysis was applied to a drainage area near Louisville, Kentucky.

If reservoir storage is to be considered in a flood control program, it is necessary to know how the entire flood hydrograph, not just the peak, may be expected to vary with changing watershed conditions. Relationships expressing these effects were also developed by applying the Stanford Watershed Model to both watersheds.

The necessary data were then assembled so that the University of Kentucky Flood Control Planning Program could be applied to the area in Louisville to illustrate the optimum flood control program in a growing urban area in a humid climate.

Publication Date

1968

Report Number

10

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.13023/kwrri.rr.10

Funding Information

"The Effects of Geographical and Climatic Setting on the Economic Advantages of Alternative Flood Control Measures" is based on research performed as part of a project entitled "Economic Analysis of Alternative Flood Control Measures" (OWRR Project No. A-001-KY) sponsored by the University of Kentucky Water Resources Institute and supported in part by funds provided by the United States Department of Interior as authorized under the Water Resources Research Act of 1964, Public Law 88-379.

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