New & Evolving Concepts in
Indirect Discharge Measurements (A Workshop)
May 8-11, 2001
Front Royal, Virginia
The Office of Surface Water sponsored a workshop on new and evolving
concepts in indirect-discharge measurements. Past and present
challenges, and some insightful recent successes, made this a
propitious time to collect share ideas and plan future
goals.
The workshop was held at the Quality Inn in Front Royal, Virginia and
participants also took a field trip to the Passage Creek area in
the Shenandoah Valley to look at flood history as told by the
geobotanical evidence preserved on the flood plain.
The workshop had three goals:
- Focus on a number of leading presentations that highlight
problems, approaches, philosophy, and suggestions for dealing
with the documentation of flows that for one reason or another
cannot be measured directly. These include:
- Use of Classified images for indirects
- Use and merits of the critical depth methods
- Use and merits of the slope-conveyance method
- Process recognifition in new and old indirects
- Significance of translatory waves (roll waves) in
flash-flood peaks
- Indirects i alluvial fan environments
- Paleoflood hydrology and non-exceedence approaches
- Realistic error bands on indirects
- Use of more complex models (dynamic 1D; 2D)
- New technology (kinematic GPS, field sensors, ???)
- Things to do to avoid having to make indirect discharge
measurements
- Expose experienced hydrotechs and hydrologists to some new ideas and
concepts, allow them to meet people involved in the creation
of new approaches, and the return home with ideas and contacts
to introduce some new approaches in their own offices;
- Go away with a list of priority needs and goals to improve our
ability to accurately measure the largest flows at
streamgaging stations and miscallaneous
sites.
List of Participants
Agenda of Workshop includes links to various presentations.
Biology |
Geology |
Geography |
Water
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