Water Resources Engineering
Water balance and planning, reservoir yield, dam safety and spillways, storm sewers, stormwater ponds and low impact development, culverts with fish passage, bridge hydraulics and scour, river engineering, floodplain risk, groundwater and climate adaptation, applied to a watershed master plan for Kestrel Creek in Thunder Bay.
CIV-470 Year 4 3 credits 12 lessons · 3 h 51 min ▶ Video lessons coming soon
Offered by HSM University · Civil Engineering
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Frame a watershed master plan with a water balance, demand forecasts and the approvals required under Ontario and federal water law.
- Determine reservoir storage for a draft by the mass curve and sequent peak methods and evaluate reliability by monthly simulation.
- Classify a dam by the consequences of failure under the Canadian Dam Association guidelines, route the inflow design flood over its spillway, and estimate reservoir sedimentation.
- Design inlets and storm sewers with the rational method and Manning's equation, and check the hydraulic grade line and the major system.
- Size wet ponds and low impact development practices for flood, erosion, water quality and volume objectives in a cold climate.
- Develop culvert performance curves and design embedded crossings that pass both floods and fish.
- Estimate backwater and clearance at bridges by the energy method and Yarnell's pier equation.
- Calculate contraction and pier scour by the HEC-18 equations and select scour countermeasures.
- Predict channel response with Lane's balance, assess bed stability and bedload with Shields and Meyer-Peter and Müller, and design riprap and bioengineered bank protection.
- Map regulatory floodplains and floodways, compute expected annual damage and evaluate flood risk measures by benefit-cost analysis.
- Analyse pumping tests by the Cooper-Jacob method, predict drawdown by Theis, and design a conjunctive surface water and groundwater supply.
- Test a water resources plan against climate change with design-life risk, change factors and adaptive provisions, and prioritize its projects.
Course content
12 lessons · 3 h 51 min total · final exam
- 1 Water resources planning and management 21 min · quiz
- 2 Reservoir storage and yield 19 min · quiz
- 3 Dams, spillways and reservoir sedimentation 20 min · quiz
- 4 Urban drainage: inlets and storm sewers 19 min · quiz
- 5 Stormwater management: detention, retention and low impact development 18 min · quiz
- 6 Culvert hydraulics and fish passage 20 min · quiz
- 7 Bridge hydraulics 19 min · quiz
- 8 Bridge scour 19 min · quiz
- 9 River engineering and sediment transport 20 min · quiz
- 10 Floodplain mapping and flood risk management 18 min · quiz
- 11 Groundwater and conjunctive use 19 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: climate adaptation and the Kestrel Creek master plan 19 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Water balance and planning, reservoir yield, dam safety and spillways, storm sewers, stormwater ponds and low impact development, culverts with fish passage, bridge hydraulics and scour, river engineering, floodplain risk, groundwater and climate adaptation, applied to a watershed master plan for Kestrel Creek in Thunder Bay.
Part of the Engineering stream, typically taken in year 4.