LYCEUM OF THE PHILIPPINES UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, COMPUTER STUDIES, AND ARCHITECTURE

DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING

Hydrology (HYDN02E)

WRITTEN REPORT
(RUNOFF SIMULATION)

SUBMITTED BY:

LAURON, RIA MAE S.

SUBMITTED TO:

ENGR. DREXLER B. SIBAL

DATE SUBMITTED:

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

The Model My Watershed (MMW) Runoff Simulation animates results from applying the TR-
55 runoff model developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Small Storm Hydrology
Model for Urban Areas developed by Robert Pitt for a single 24-hour rain storm over a
hypothetical small unit of land with a single land cover class and a single hydrologic soil group.
(Model My Watershed Runoff Simulation Guide | WikiWatershed, no date).

In the simulation, I chose the Cultivated Crops for the land cover and A-High Infiltration for the
hydrologic soil group. Cultivated Crops are areas used to produce the annual crops, such as corn,
soybeans, vegetables, tobacco, cotton, and perennial woody crops such as orchards and vineyards.
Crop vegetations accounts for greater than 20% of total vegetation. This class also includes all
land being actively tilled. Group A soils have a high infiltration rate when thoroughly wet. These
consists mainly of deep, well drained to excessively drained sands or gravelly sands. These soils
have a high rate of water transmission greater than 0.3 in./hr. Group A soils typically correspond
to the following texture classes when not compacted: sand, loamy sand, or sandy loam. (Model
My Watershed Runoff Simulation Guide | WikiWatershed, no date)

From the above-mentioned parameters, the resulted amount of precipitation is 5.0 cm, 0.4 cm for
runoff, 4.0 cm for infiltration and 0.6 cm for evapotranspiration. The arrows changes size as the
amount increase for every component. The amount of rainfall for every component can be seen on
the water column on the right side. When a red warning sign shows on the top of the water column,
it means that more than 5.0 cm of rainfall will become runoff. Huge amount of runoff could result
to flood on the land covering the rainfall. Since there are no red signs in the result, the amount of
rainfall on every component is sufficient.

From the two simulations, you can see that there is a difference in their data from the component
of runoff. The amount of rainfall in Pasture/Hay is 5.0 cm, 0.0 cm for runoff, 4.5 cm for infiltration
and 0.5 cm for evapotranspiration. This type of land does not have any amount of rainfall in its
runoff because all the water infiltrates through the help of the plants. And compared to using
Cultivated Crop as land cover, there is an abundance of green plants in Pasture/Hay that helps to
infiltrate water into the soil.
REFERENCES

https://wikiwatershed.org/documentation/runoff-simulation-guide/

https://runoff.app.wikiwatershed.org/#land-cultivated_crops