Influence of time of concentration on variation of runoff from a small urbanized watershed
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Center for Forested Wetlands Research USDA
Forest Service Southern Research Station, USA
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Uniwersytet Rolniczy w Krakowie
Katedra Inżynierii Sanitarnej i Gospodarki Wodnej, Poland
Publication date: 2015-06-30
Geomatics, Landmanagement and Landscape 2015;(2)
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The main objective of the paper is to estimate the influence of time of concentration (TC) on
maximum flow in an urbanized watershed. The calculations of maximum flow have been carried out using the Rational method, Technical Release 55 (TR55) procedure based on NRCS
(National Resources Conservation Services) guidelines, and NRCS-UH rainfall-runoff model.
Similarly, three methods were used to calculate the overland flow component of the TC: the
Kerby method, the Morgali and Linsley method and the NRCS travel time method.
The TC was calculated in a watershed located in Krakow city in Poland, małopolskie voivodeship. Total area of the watershed has about 180 ha. It’s a highly urbanized watershed with a significant land cover (29.6% of total area) influencing the runoff, in the form of an impervious
industrial area.
The highest value of time of concentration was achieved for Morgali and Lindley method in
case of the subwatershed with dominant pervious areas, as opposed to the NRCS method for the
subwatershed with dominant impervious areas. The highest value of TC was obtained for NRCS
method. With reference to the whole watershed, the highest values of the time of concentration
were obtained for the MorgaliandLindley method and the lowest for the Kerby formula. Based
on this study, authors recomended the Kerby method for estimating TC for overland surface
dominated areas because this method requires only a small number of input parameters, that
are straightforward to estimate.