Civil Engineering PE Environmental Engineering and Stormwater Management

Question 1

In the rational method Q = CiA, the variable i represents:

Accepted Answer

Rainfall intensity for a storm duration equal to the time of concentration

Answer

Infiltration rate in inches per hour

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Impervious fraction of the watershed

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Inflow rate from upstream drainage

Question 2

The NRCS Curve Number (CN) method estimates:

Accepted Answer

Direct runoff depth from storm rainfall depth

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Peak discharge rate only

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Evapotranspiration losses only

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Groundwater recharge volume

Question 3

Time of concentration (Tc) for a watershed is defined as:

Accepted Answer

Travel time from the hydraulically most remote point to the outlet

Answer

Time from start of rainfall to peak runoff at the outlet

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Duration of the design storm event

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Time required to fill the detention basin to the overflow elevation

Question 4

A dry detention basin is designed primarily to:

Accepted Answer

Attenuate peak flows by temporarily storing runoff

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Permanently store stormwater for irrigation reuse

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Remove dissolved pollutants through biological treatment

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Recharge groundwater through infiltration only

Question 5

A typical Manning's roughness coefficient (n) for a natural earthen channel is:

Accepted Answer

0.025–0.035

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0.010–0.013

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0.050–0.080

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0.100–0.150

Question 6

Hydraulic radius R in Manning's equation is defined as:

Accepted Answer

Cross-sectional flow area divided by wetted perimeter

Answer

Half the pipe diameter

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Wetted perimeter divided by cross-sectional area

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The depth of flow for wide channels