Truckee Meadows (Reno-Sparks Metropolitan Area) Nevada. Documentation Report

Abstract

This office report has been prepared to present basic hydrologic data and criteria for the Truckee River Basin, California and Nevada. This data is intended for use in feasibility studies for providing additional flood protection to the Truckee Meadows area at and below Reno, Nevada. This report discusses the hydrologic characteristics of the basin, presents an analysis of flow-frequencies, and describes the development of standard project and probable maximum floods resulting from winter type rain storms and summer-fall type cloudbursts. An analysis of spring snowmelt floods is not required for this study since these types of floods are essentially non-damaging in the Truckee Meadows area under existing conditions of upstream regulation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA436409

Entities

Organizations

  • Sacramento District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Construction
  • Construction Materials
  • Drainage Basins
  • Fish
  • Flood Control
  • Floods
  • Geography
  • Groundwater
  • Mechanics
  • Medical Personnel
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Statistics
  • Topography
  • Water
  • Water Resources
  • Water Supplies

Fields of Study

  • Geology

Readers

  • Hydrologic Risk Analysis and Mitigation.
  • Riverine Ecology