Thesis Figures

Date Start Time End Time Duration Mean Depth (ft) Discharge (cfs) Sonde Stage (ft)

6/27/11 12:30 13:10 0:40 1.629 31.6325 0.665

6/30/11 14:50 15:25 0:35 1.606 26.9736 0.640

7/7/11 12:10 12:37 0:27 1.533 21.4750 0.611

7/8/11 15:22 15:49 0:27 1.545 22.6575 0.612

7/18/11 12:03 12:27 0:24 1.530 17.0275 0.582

7/19/11 16:14 16:39 0:25 1.735 71.0178 0.878

8/3/11 14:21 14:46 0:25 1.653 43.5302 0.709

8/9/11 14:10 14:33 0:23 1.616 36.1130 0.685

8/25/11 16:19 16:51 0:32 1.503 14.9154 0.548

9/27/11 11:18 11:48 0:30 1.726 58.6875 0.784

11/14/11 15:19 15:51 0:32 1.830 82.9664 0.904

11/16/11 12:01 12:29 0:28 1.856 93.8992 0.925

Table 2 – Table of field discharge measurements taken from June through

November of 2011.

Table 1 - Highlighted section is the landuse within the Beaver Creek

Watershed.

Figure 1 – Arial view of Beaver Creek’s watershed (shaded green), ENE of Springfield, Ohio, USA.

Figure 2 – An aerial view of the study reach. Note that the positions of the water

quality sonde and the study cross-section are approximated.

Figure 3 – A photograph of the study reach looking upstream.

Figure 4 – A photograph of the water quality sonde along

Beaver Creek’s north bank, immediately upstream of the

study cross-section.

Figure 5 – A photograph of Beaver Creek’s south bank at the study

cross-section.

Figure 6 – A photograph of Beaver Creek’s north bank at the study

cross-section.

1.000

1.000 10.000 100.000

Stage (Ft)

Dischagre (cfs)

Discharge Comparison

USGS Rating Curve Field Measurements 2009 - 201027 cfs

Note the difference

in stage at 27 cfs, a

difference of 0.59

ft.

Figure 7 – a comparison of the historical data collected by the USGS and Wittenberg University

(2009-2010) and field discharge measurements taken for this study on a logarithmic – logarithmic

scale.

Discharge Measurement Summary Date Generated: Wed Jul 6 2011

File InformationFile Name BE062711.JAB.WAD

Start Date and Time 2011/06/27 12:30:13

Site DetailsSite Name BEAVERCR

Operator(s) JAB

System InformationSensor Type FlowTrackerSerial # P2091

CPU Firmware Version 3.5

Software Ver 2.20

Units (English Units)

Distance ftVelocity ft/s

Area ft^2

Discharge cfs

SummaryAveraging Int. 40 # Stations 17

Start Edge LEW Total Width 64.000Mean SNR 24.4 dB Total Area 104.230

Mean Temp 63.84 °F Mean Depth 1.629Disch. Equation Mid-Section Mean Velocity 0.3035

Total Discharge 31.6325

Discharge UncertaintyCategory ISO Stats

Accuracy 1.0% 1.0%

Depth 0.1% 0.8%

Velocity 0.6% 2.2%

Width 0.1% 0.1%

Method 2.1% -

# Stations 3.0% -

Overall 3.8% 2.5%

Rows in italics indicate a QC warning. See the Quality Control page of this report for more information.

Measurement Results St Clock Loc Method Depth %Dep MeasD Vel CorrFact MeanV Area Flow %Q

0 12:30 0.00 None 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0000 1.00 0.0000 0.000 0.0000 0.0

1 12:30 5.00 0.6 2.040 0.6 0.816 0.2241 1.00 0.2241 10.200 2.2857 7.2

2 12:32 10.00 0.6 2.160 0.6 0.864 0.2808 1.00 0.2808 10.801 3.0332 9.6

3 12:35 15.00 0.6 2.000 0.6 0.800 0.3652 1.00 0.3652 8.000 2.9213 9.2

4 13:04 18.00 0.6 1.900 0.6 0.760 0.3727 1.00 0.3727 4.750 1.7703 5.6

5 12:38 20.00 0.6 1.810 0.6 0.724 0.3540 1.00 0.3540 4.525 1.6019 5.1

6 13:07 23.00 0.6 1.720 0.6 0.688 0.3750 1.00 0.3750 4.300 1.6126 5.1

7 12:41 25.00 0.6 1.670 0.6 0.668 0.3350 1.00 0.3350 5.845 1.9579 6.2

8 12:43 30.00 0.6 1.630 0.6 0.652 0.3632 1.00 0.3632 8.150 2.9598 9.4

9 12:46 35.00 0.6 1.630 0.6 0.652 0.3346 1.00 0.3346 8.150 2.7272 8.6

10 12:48 40.00 0.6 1.620 0.6 0.648 0.3776 1.00 0.3776 8.100 3.0589 9.7

11 12:50 45.00 0.6 1.760 0.6 0.704 0.4229 1.00 0.4229 6.159 2.6048 8.2

12 13:10 47.00 0.6 1.800 0.6 0.720 0.3494 1.00 0.3494 4.500 1.5722 5.0

13 12:53 50.00 0.6 1.700 0.6 0.680 0.3058 1.00 0.3058 6.801 2.0794 6.6

14 12:55 55.00 0.6 1.620 0.6 0.648 0.1578 1.00 0.1578 8.100 1.2783 4.0

15 12:59 60.00 0.6 1.300 0.6 0.520 0.0289 1.00 0.0289 5.849 0.1689 0.5

16 12:59 64.00 None 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0000 1.00 0.0000 0.000 0.0000 0.0

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Stage (ft)

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Stage at Beaver Creek

Figure 12 – A hydrograph of Beaver Creek from 6/26/11 through 11/16/11. Note that the red lines

represent the highest and lowest stages at which discharge was measured.

10.0000

100.0000

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Field Discharge Measurement Curve

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Figure 13 – A plot of the 12 field discharge measurements on a logarithmic – logarithmic scale.

Y = -4E-14x4+4E-10X3-2E-06X2+0.0044x+953.19

Figure 14 – The stage-discharge rating curve developed for Beaver Creek, characterizing

discharges from 0 to 5000 cfs. Note that W.S. Elev means water surface elevation and Q Total is

total discharge.

Figure 15 – Water surface profiles for each defined stage at its corresponding discharge. Note that W.S.

is water surface, followed by the discharge it is modeling. W.S. Max refers to the water surface at 5000

cfs. Also, note that the drop in the WS Max is characteristic of a hydraulic jump.

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