FRANCIS NDUNG’U NGUGI

EICI/00971/2016

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KENYA

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING

EECI 4241: WATER AND WASTEWATER SYSTEMS AND DESIGN

CAT ONE

11/02/2020

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From Davis, M.L. (2010), Water and Wastewater Engineering. Design Principles and

Practice. Mc Graw-Hill Companies

2.1. Estimate the demand (in m3 /d) of a new suburban subdivision of 333 houses for the

average, maximum, and minimum day. Assume that both the AWWA household average

demand and Figure 2-1apply. Also assume that each house is occupied by three residents.

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2.4. Using a spreadsheet you have written, perform a complete series analysis on the data for the

Squannacook River near West Groton, MA, given on page 2-41 Plot a yield curve. What is the

safe yield of the river if the regulatory agency will allow a withdrawal of 6%?

Question 2.4 complete analsis of River Squannacook

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4.5
4
3.5
Discharge (m3/s)

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2.5
2
1.5
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0.5
0
0 5 10 15 20 25
Percent time

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2.6. Using a spreadsheet you have written, perform an annual minima analysis on the data for the

Squannacook River near West Groton, MA, given on page 2-41 Plot the data on Gumbel paper

and determine the minimum monthly discharge for the mean annual drought. If the demand is

0.131 m3/s, will storage be required if the regulatory agency will allow a withdrawal of 6%?

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2-11. Your supervisor has asked you to make a first approximation estimate of the maximum

allowable sustained pumping rate for a 1 m diameter well located in a confined aquifer. She has

given you the well boring log shown below. Your firm uses a 2 m safety factor to ensure that the

piezometric surface is not lowered below the aquiclude. She has said you may assume that the

aquifer has a typical hydraulic conductivity. For a first trial assume that the drawdown in an

observation well 100 m away from the pumping well is 0.0 m; that is, the pumping well’s radius

of influence is less or equal than 100 m.

Typical well boring log

Aquifer material Depth, m

Clay and sand 12 static water level=12m
Fine gray sand 10
Hardpan 2
Shale 2
Fractured rock 55
Shale 2 well terminated

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From Shammas and Wang (2015), water and wastewater engineering _ hydraulics,

distribution, and treatment-John Wiley & Sons Inc.

1.7 Determine the storage volume of a new raw water reservoir in accordance with the following

given technical information: (a) city population = 400,000; (b) water consumption = 150 gpcd =

568 Lpcd; (c) watershed or catchment area = 80 mi2 = 207.2 km2 ; (d) rainfall rate = 45 in.∕year

= 114.3 cm∕year; (e) evaporation rate = 20 in.∕year = 50.8 cm∕year; (f) minimum reservoir volume

= 50% annual net yield or half of a year’s water supply, whichever is greater; and (g) 75% water

resources development.

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4.1 As shown in Table 4.3, the April census population of Detroit, MI, was 1,028,000 in 1990

and decreased to 951,000 in 2000. Estimate the population for the following periods:

i. For the fifth intercensal year in April using (a) arithmetic and (b) geometric progression.

ii. For the sixth postcensal year in April using (a) arithmetic and (b) geometric progression.

Table 4.3 Census populations of Detroit, MI; Providence, RI; and Miami, FL; 1910–2006

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 Census Year (a)Detroit (b) Providence © Miami
1910 466,000 224,000 5,500
1920 994,000 235,000 30,000
1930 1,569,000 253,000 111,000
1940 1,623,000 254,000 172,000
1950 1,850,000 249,000 249,000
1960 1,670,000 207,000 292,000
1970 1,493,000 177,000 332,000
1980 1,203,000 157,000 347,000
1990 1,028,000 161,000 359,000
2000 951,000 174,000 363,000
2010 714,000 178,000 401,000

Source: After US Bureau of the Census. All population values have been rounded to the nearest

thousand.

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