2006
DOI: 10.2172/881690
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FY 1999 Progress Report on: Potential Groundwater Recharge from the Infiltration of Surface Runoff in Cold and Dry Creeks

Abstract: The volume of water available for groundwater recharge through the infiltration of surface runoff in Cold and Dry Creeks was estimated for a 100-year storm and the Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) of Skaggs and Walters (1981). A 100-year, 7-day design storm was developed from 40 years of precipitation data measured at the Hanford Meteorological Station (HMS). Runoff measured in Upper Cold Creek was used with HMS precipitation data to calculate curve numbers for the Soil Conservation Service rainfall-runoff… Show more

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“…The first value is the "probable maximum precipitation" from Skaggs and Walters (1981), and the latter three values from Wigmosta and Guensch (2005) correspond to a return period of 100 years. For comparison, the largest rainfall event during January 1995 was 1.02 inches over approximately 3 days.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…The first value is the "probable maximum precipitation" from Skaggs and Walters (1981), and the latter three values from Wigmosta and Guensch (2005) correspond to a return period of 100 years. For comparison, the largest rainfall event during January 1995 was 1.02 inches over approximately 3 days.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For comparison, these recharge volumes are 7 to 14 times the average annual recharge rate for surface runoff estimated by Dinicola (1997), and fall between two estimates of direct recharge from infiltrating rainfall and snowmelt for the entire Hanford Site: 6,680 ac-ft/y (Fayer and Walters 1995) and 14,467 ac-ft/y (Jacobsen and Freshley 1990). The recharge volumes estimated here are less than half of those by Wigmosta and Guensch (2005) because that study used the entire Cold Creek basin down to the Yakima River as the area basis for computing runoff. Here, the focus was on recharge that originates tens of kilometers away and infiltrates in a relatively concentrated area on the Hanford Site.…”
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