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Floodflow characteristics of Filbin Creek for pre- and post-construction conditions, 1986, at North Charleston, South Carolina

Water-Resources Investigations Report 87-4157
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https://doi.org/10.3133/wri874157

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Abstract

A study to determine the effect of the construction of a shopping and business center, and of the construction and improvement of several highways on floodflow in the Filbin Creek drainage basin near North Charleston, South Carolina was performed. Discharge hydrographs were synthesized using computerized U.S. Soil Conservation Service unit hydrograph methods and routed using reservoir, step backwater, and culvert flow programs. Construction of the shopping and business center, according to plans of July 1986, will raise the water surface elevations upstream of Interstate Highway 26 by about 2.0 ft for runoff from 100-yr rainfall. Structures at Seaboard Railroad downstream of U.S. Highway 52, U.S. Highway 52, and Virginia Avenue would cause about 2.0, 2.6, and 4.1 ft of backwater, respectively. (Author 's abstract)

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Sanders, C., 1987, Floodflow characteristics of Filbin Creek for pre- and post-construction conditions, 1986, at North Charleston, South Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 87-4157, iii, 19 p. :ill., map ;28 cm., https://doi.org/10.3133/wri874157.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Floodflow characteristics of Filbin Creek for pre- and post-construction conditions, 1986, at North Charleston, South Carolina
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 87-4157
DOI 10.3133/wri874157
Year Published 1987
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey,
Contributing office(s) South Atlantic Water Science Center
Description iii, 19 p. :ill., map ;28 cm.
Country United States
State South Carolina
City North Charleston
Other Geospatial Filbin Creek
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