[GRASS-user] Re: Defining Partial Drainage Basin

Daniel Victoria daniel.victoria at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 14:56:12 EST 2010


Looking at the PNG it does not look like any of the pour points are on
the channel. It has to be exactly on top of the lines in the flowacc
map. By setting the pour point to the right place you can delineate
the drainage area for each of them and see how much came from the
reservoir.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Daniel Victoria wrote:
>
>> In order for a basin to be delineated correctly, the pour point has to
>> be in a high accumulation area (I once heard the expression synthetic
>> river...)
>
> Daniel,
>
>  Perhaps if I explain what I'm trying to do it will help everyone who's
> assisting me.
>
>  There's a small parcel of land several hundred meters below a dam. On
> January 1, 2009, after almost 14 inches of rain in the past week (including
> 6.44 inches the day before), that property flooded, including the trailer
> house sitting there. This is the first flat spot below the dam (and the dam
> spillway operated properly); the creek is deeply incised with almost
> vertical walls below the dam. The bank on the other side from the property
> is higher so all the flooding was all on this one side. Of course, lower in
> the drainage basin flooding was more extensive (including a brand-new house
> that hasn't sold in two years because it was built on the floodplain.)
>
>  What I want to show is where all that precipitation runoff came from, and
> that it's not all from the reservoir overflowing the spillway. Immediately
> west of the flooded property is a steep hill, so a lot of surface runoff
> came from there and augmented what was transported in the stream channel.
>
>> Well, put your pour point on top of the accumulation map and see if it's
>> on top of the river. If not, change your easting and northing coordinates
>> appropriately. If you come from ArcGIS world, they have a tool called Snap
>> Pour Point that does that. I recall doing something similar in grass using
>> v.distance and a stream raster...
>
>  The last time I used ARC/Info was 1989. :-)
>
>  The pour point is on the stream channel. See the attached .png that I
> forgot to put on my response to Stephen. The topmost 'x' is the flooded
> property, the one below it is the center of the dam.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
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