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Flood frequency of the Savannah River at Augusta, Georgia

Water-Resources Investigations Report 90-4024
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https://doi.org/10.3133/wri904024

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Abstract

To fill an increasing need for reliable information on floods of various recurrence intervals on the Savannah River a flood-frequency relation was developed for the long-term gaging station at Augusta, Georgia. The flood-frequency analysis was complicated by the fact that the Savannah River upstream of Augusta has experienced increasing regulation of flow caused by three large dams constructed since 1952. The pre-impoundment period was important to the flood-frequency analysis because it included a number of large floods that, even when adjusted for regulation, exceed all floods since 1952. A reservoir routing model was used to adjust nine such floods for the effects of regulation, and to develop a relation for estimating regulated peak discharges for additional unregulated floods. The 1% chance exceedance flood for regulated conditions on the Savannah River at Augusta was computed as 180,000 cu ft/sec. (USGS)

Suggested Citation

Sanders, C., Kubik, H., Hoke, J., and Kirby, W., 1990, Flood frequency of the Savannah River at Augusta, Georgia: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 90-4024, vi, 87 p. :ill. ;28 cm., https://doi.org/10.3133/wri904024.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Flood frequency of the Savannah River at Augusta, Georgia
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 90-4024
DOI 10.3133/wri904024
Year Published 1990
Language ENGLISH
Publisher Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ; Books and Open-File Reports [distributor],
Contributing office(s) South Atlantic Water Science Center
Description vi, 87 p. :ill. ;28 cm.
Country United States
State Georgia
City Augusta
Other Geospatial Savannah River
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