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Minimum
Normal
Maximum
0.009
0.010
0.013
0.010
0.013
0.012
0.016
0.014
0.017
0.010
0.011
0.013
0.014
0.014
0.016
0.012
0.013
0.014
0.016
0.015
0.017
0.017
0.021
0.019
0.024
0.030
0.030
0.008
0.009
0.009
0.010
0.010
0.013
0.010
0.011
0.011
0.013
0.013
0.015
0.010
0.011
0.013
0.011
0.013
0.014
0.011
0.013
0.012
0.015
0.014
0.017
0.012
0.012
0.015
0.013
0.014
0.017
0.014
0.016
0.020
0.010
0.015
0.012
0.017
0.014
0.020
0.011
0.011
0.013
0.013
0.014
0.015
0.017
0.017
0.017
0.014
0.016
0.018
0.011
0.012
0.012
0.013
0.015
0.013
0.015
0.017
0.016
0.016
0.018
0.009
0.010
0.019
0.025
0.020
0.030
Minimum
Normal
Maximum
0.011
0.012
0.021
0.012
0.013
0.025
0.014
0.017
0.030
0.010
0.011
0.011
0.013
0.013
0.015
0.010
0.011
0.011
0.012
0.010
0.012
0.012
0.013
0.015
0.014
0.014
0.014
0.015
0.018
0.017
0.011
0.013
0.015
0.014
0.016
0.018
0.017
0.022
0.013
0.015
0.017
0.017
0.019
0.022
0.020
0.027
0.015
0.016
0.020
0.020
0.023
0.025
0.015
0.017
0.016
0.017
0.020
0.020
0.020
0.024
0.024
0.020
0.020
0.025
0.030
0.030
0.035
0.017
0.020
0.023
0.020
0.023
0.033
0.025
0.026
0.036
0.011
0.012
0.013
0.015
0.015
0.018
0.017
0.023
0.013
0.025
0.032
0.015
0.030
0.035
0.017
0.013
0.016
0.030
0.013
0.016
0.500
Minimum
Normal
Maximum
0.016
0.018
0.022
0.022
0.018
0.022
0.025
0.027
0.020
0.025
0.030
0.033
0.023
0.025
0.030
0.025
0.030
0.035
0.030
0.033
0.040
0.028
0.025
0.030
0.030
0.035
0.040
0.035
0.040
0.050
0.025
0.035
0.028
0.050
0.033
0.060
0.025
0.035
0.035
0.040
0.040
0.050
0.050
0.080
0.120
0.040
0.045
0.080
0.050
0.070
0.100
0.080
0.110
0.140
0.070
0.090
0.045
0.050
0.180
0.300
0.090
0.150
0.014
0.250
0.080
0.130
0.050
0.060
0.035
0.040
0.120
0.200
0.070
0.100
0.100
0.170
0.160
0.090
C. Excavated or Dredged
C1 General
a. Earth, straight and uniform
1. Clean and recently completed
2. Clean, after weathering
3. Gravel, uniform section, clean
4. With short grass, few weeds
b. Earth, winding and sluggish
1. No vegetation
2. Grass, some weeds
3. Dense weeds or aquatic plants
in deep channels
4. Earth bottom and rubble sides
5. Stony bottom and weedy banks
6. Cobble bottom and clean sides
c. Dragline-excavated or dredged
1. No vegetation
2. Light brush on banks
d. Rock cuts
1. Smooth and uniform
2. Jagged and irregular
e. Channels not maintained, weeds
and brush uncut
1. Dense weeds, high as ow
depth
2. Clean bottom, brush on sides
3. Same, highest stage of ow
4. Dense brush, high stage
C2 Channels with maintained vegetation
and velocities of 2 and 6 ft/s
a. Depth of ow up to 0.7 ft
1. Bermuda grass, Kentucky
bluegrass, buffalo grass
Mowed to 2 in
Length 4 to 6 in
2. Good stand, any grass
Length approx. 12 in
Length approx. 24 in
3. Fair stand, any grass
Length approx. 12 in
Length approx. 24 in
b. Depth of ow up to 0.71.5 ft
1. Bermuda grass, Kentucky
bluegrass, buffalo grass
Mowed to 2 in
Length 46 in
2. Good stand, any grass
Length approx. 12 in
3. Length approx. 24 in
Fair stand, any grass
Length approx. 12 in
Length approx. 24 in
Minimum
Normal
Maximum
0.025
0.030
0.033
0.030
0.035
0.040
0.033
0.040
0.045
0.035
0.045
0.050
0.040
0.048
0.055
0.045
0.050
0.050
0.070
0.060
0.080
0.075
0.100
0.150
0.030
0.040
0.050
0.040
0.050
0.070
0.025
0.030
0.030
0.035
0.035
0.050
0.020
0.025
0.030
0.030
0.035
0.040
0.040
0.045
0.050
0.035
0.035
0.040
0.045
0.050
0.050
0.070
0.070
0.070
0.060
0.110
0.110
0.070
0.100
0.160
0.110
0.030
0.150
0.040
0.200
0.050
0.050
0.060
0.080
0.080
0.100
0.120
0.100
0.120
0.160
D. Natural Streams
D1 Minor streams
(top width at ood stage < 100 ft)
a. Streams on plain
1. Clean, straight, full stage no
rifts or deep pools
2. Same as above, but with more
stones and weeds
3. Clean, winding, some pools and
shoals
4. Same as above, but with some
weeds and stones
5. Same as above, lower stages
more ineffective slopes and
sections
6. Same as no. 4, more stones
7. Sluggish reaches, weedy, deep
pools
8. Very weedy, reaches, deep pools
or oodways with heavy stand
of timber and underbrush
b. Mountain streams, no vegetation in
channel, banks usually steep, trees
and brush along banks submerged
at high stages
1. Bottom: gravels, cobbles and
few boulders
2. Bottom: cobbles with large
boulders
D2 Floodplains
a. Pasture, no brush
1. Short grass
2. High grass
b. Cultivated areas
1. No crop
2. Mature row crops
3. Mature eld crops
c. Brush
1. Scattered brush, heavy weeds
2. Light brush and trees in winter
3. Light brush and trees in summer
4. Medium to dense brush in
winter
5. Medium to dense brush in
summer
d. Trees
1. Dense willows, summer, straight
2. Cleared land with tree stumps,
no sprouts
3. Same as above but with a heavy
growth of sprouts
4. Heavy stand of timber, a few
down trees, little undergrowth,
ood stage below branches
5. Same as above, but with ood
stage reaching branches
Minimum
Normal
Maximum
0.025
0.060
0.035
0.100
0.014
0.018
0.020
0.014
0.020
0.030
0.040
0.025
0.010
0.012
0.015
0.020
0.170
0.170
0.200
0.200
0.100
0.300
0.050
0.800
0.480
0.400
0.300
0.200
0.400
0.130
0.090
0.050
0.340
0.250
0.008
0.060
0.060
0.300
0.040
0.070
0.170
0.012
0.220
0.160
0.500
0.100
0.170
0.470
0.100
0.100
0.200
0.150
0.080
0.040
0.020
0.120
0.100
0.050
D3 Major streams
( top width at ood stage > 100 ft )
the n value is less than that for minor
streams of similar description because
banks offer less effective resistance
Source: From Chow (1959), Richardson et al. (1987), Simons, Li, & Associates (SLA), 1982, and others.