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18-Env-A2 Hydrology and Municipal Hydraulics Engineering: May 2013

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  1. Question 1 Sanitary Sewer Design, Off-Site Runoff Control and Flood-Frequency Analysis
  2. Question 2 Inflow/Infiltration Design Implications, Precipitation & Snow Melt, Collection System Components
  3. Question 3 The Natural Hydrologic Cycle
  4. Question 4 Closed-Pipe Hydraulics, High-Lift Pump Capacity and Runoff Models
  5. Question 5 Stage-Discharge, Trapezoidal Channel Flow and Specific Energy Over a Bed Rise
  6. Question 6 Urban Stormwater Wet Ponds and IDF-Based Rational Method Design
  7. Question 7 Pipe Network Analysis, the Hardy-Cross Method and Centrifugal Pump System Design

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National Exams — May 2013 — 04-Env-A2 / Hydrology and Municipal Hydraulics Engineering. 3 hours duration; closed book with an 8×11 in double-sided aid sheet; Casio or Sharp approved calculator only. Any five questions constitute a complete paper (first five answers marked, 20 marks each, 100 marks total); all seven are solved below for completeness.

Reference texts. Davis & Cornwell, Introduction to Environmental Engineering (6th ed.) — hydrology, stormwater management and water-demand chapters; Metcalf & Eddy, Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery (5th ed.) — sanitary sewer hydraulics; MWH’s Water Treatment: Principles and Design (3rd ed.) — distribution systems and pumping; Chow, Open-Channel Hydraulics — Manning's n tables and specific-energy theory; Chow, Maidment & Mays, Applied Hydrology — frequency analysis; Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality (Health Canada).