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Item MODELLING URBAN STORM WATER FLOODING IN HOSSANA TOWN: THE CASE OF ADDIS SUBCITY(Hawassa University, 2019-12-17) ABERA MECHA SEWOREUrban flooding is a condition where storm water cannot enter a storm drain or it is beyond the capacity of the urban drainage system. Such urban flooding is mainly caused by inefficient urban drainage systems, and it cause damage to public and private buildings and disrupts public life. Therefore, modeling urban floods were very essential to mitigate flooding related problems. The main objective of this research was modeling urban storm water flooding in Hossana town specifically in Addis sub-city. There were many tools for urban storm flood modeling, but out of limited free tools, Storm water management model (SWMM) has a good record of applicability in many locations elsewhere. Various rainfall and spatial data were collected to model urban floods. Daily maximum rainfall data from Hossana station for 28 years (1990-2017) was used to identify parent probability distribution and enabled to develop the Intensity duration frequency curve (IDF) for study area. SWMM was implemented to simulate the flood depth in the drainage channels and Arc GIS is used to delineate the extent of the flood contributing area. The hydrology and hydraulic routing of the watershed was estimated using the SWMM at the total of 1-hour time of concentration daily time series data of different year return periods. The inputs of the models (nodes, conduits and sub- catchment area property) were assigned with the help of Auto-CAD, Arc-GIS 10, Google earth pro, and field survey. The result obtained from the model showed that (39%), (41%) drainage manholes encountered flooding for 10 and 25 years return periods respectively. Hence, approximately (40%) of the drainage system of the city previously designed was inadequate to discharge the system runoff to final point. Discharge of the catchment was also determined by using Soil conservation service (SCS) curve method and rational method that was used to relate and check the SWMM model output value. In general, the results of this study will be useful for further design and planning of the sub cities in the Hossana town. Moreover, further research on urban flooding which accounts two-dimensional flow is recommended to account the flood extent and risks associated with it.Item ASSESSMENT OF THE RUN OF THE RIVER HYDROPOWER POTENTIAL AT THE DOWN STREAM OF KOKA DAM AND FORECASTING THE LEVEL OF FLOODING AT SELECTED SITE (CASE STUDY OF AWASH RIVER BASIN, ETHIOPIA)(Hawassa University, 2023-10-26) ASHENAFI AYZA ASELEEnergy demand is increasing exponentially. This is because of rapid population growth, urbanization, the higher standards of living, industrial and agricultural expansion. Nevertheless, the available energy supply is not reliable due to sedimentation problem. So, it is advisable to use the nearby available natural resources (i.e. river and suitable topography) for potential assessments without adverse effect to cope with increasing and diversified energy demands. This study aims to investigate the assessment of river run of hydropower potential at 50km downstream of Koka Dam. To achieve the goal, Stream flow data were collected from 1991-2016 and height information was quantified from contour map and 3D spatial analyst tool in ArcGIS. Initially, the study was identified three possible potential sites and from these sites; site one was selected as the most prioritized site using MCDA method. The study included the Flood level forecasting at mostly prioritized site for further precaution using HEC-GeoRAS for preprocessing of geometric data and HEC-RAS for post processing of hydraulic modeling. Following the aforementioned model, methods and data the study computed the theoretical power at site one was (8981kw and 4197kw), technical power was (6960kw and 3253kw) and the annual energy output was (60.9GWh/year and 28GWh/year) are the maximum and minimum power at Q30 and Q95 respectively. The most preferred site had dependable flow of 19.71m3/s and is occur 95% of the year and the design flow was 42.17m3/s and is occur 30% of the year. The flood inundation area and the maximum flood depth at mostly prioritized river station 1100 where the study starts head measurement (i.e. upstream full reservoir level) and around 1km upstream of R.S. 1100 (i.e. at R.S.2050) were (145.79m 2 , 4.96m) and (204.09m 2 , 5.62m) respectively for 100 year return period. The validation of spatial information for site one tested were 0.71 for RMSE and hydraulic model performance for R.S.1100 and R.S.2050 were (0.7, -8.29 and 0.97) and (0.83, 5.92 and 0.96) for ENS, PBIAS and R for return period of 100 year and show the applicability of the model was good. To encapsulate we can get the site at 50km downstream of Koka Dam that have the capacity to produce annual energy of 60.9GWh/year. Consequently, it is possible to minimize the problem of highly increased and diversified electric demands at the target area. Hence, it is recommended that the government at national as well as local level or any other agency should look over it in detail and finding to implement thorough investigation of the areaItem FLOOD MAPPING ON GREAT AKAKI RIVER IN ADDIS ABABA, AKAKI KALITY SUB-CITY(Hawassa University, 2019-12-19) BERHANU BALTA HADAROIn recent years, the patterns of flood across all continents have been changing and becoming more frequent, intense and leading the people to face risks. Therefore, the risk should be investigated and quantified properly. The objective of this thesis was to develop flood inundation maps of Great Akaki river in Addis Ababa, Akaki Kality sub-city. Streamflow, digital Elevation model (12.5*12.5 m) resolution and land use data were used as an input for the RAS mapper in HECRAS model. The 2D-HECRAS and ArcGIS models were used for mapping the flood extent, depth and velocity for various return periods. The Mann-Whitney and Wald-Wolfowitz statistical tests were used to hydrological data test. The basic assumption in statistical flood frequency analysis for its homogeneity, independency and stationarity of the time series at 5% significance level. The Easy fit 5.0 software was used to fit and identify the parent probability distribution for the streamflow data. The frequency analysis result depicts that Log-Normal probability distribution with 3 parameters best fitted the flood time series. The estimated quintiles for 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 years return periods were found to be 210.29, 333.04, 453.16, 626.19, 769.75, and 925.41 m3 /s respectively. The 2D-HECRAS model output indicated that about 86,123,156,228,285, and 350 ha land has been inundated for an event of 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 years of return period respectively. The 100 years flood magnitude inundated about 78, 272 and 34 ha of irrigated command area, swamp area and population settlement respectively. Flood risk map was developed based on hazard and vulnerability indicators. A preliminary alignment of structural flood protection dike was identified with length of 1.5km at downstream and 0.5 km at upstream of bridge which would make 95% of the settlement area on the left bank safe. The study has shown that the middle and lower part the study area is more inundated than upper parts. Therefore, the affected areas were whether to be free of infrastructure development, investment and residence of people or construct flood protection structure in order to avoid the risk of flooding in the area especially closer to the Great Akaki River.Item FLOOD MAPPING ON GREAT AKAKI RIVER IN ADDIS ABABA, AKAKI KALITY SUB-CITY(Hawassa University, 2019-07-08) BERHANU BALTA HADAROIn recent years, the patterns of flood across all continents have been changing and becoming more frequent, intense and leading the people to face risks. Therefore, the risk should be investigated and quantified properly. The objective of this thesis was to develop flood inundation maps of Great Akaki river in Addis Ababa, Akaki Kality sub-city. Streamflow, digital Elevation model (12.5*12.5 m) resolution and land use data were used as an input for the RAS mapper in HECRAS model. The 2D-HECRAS and ArcGIS models were used for mapping the flood extent, depth and velocity for various return periods. The Mann-Whitney and Wald-Wolfowitz statistical tests were used to hydrological data test. The basic assumption in statistical flood frequency analysis for its homogeneity, independency and stationarity of the time series at 5% significance level. The Easy fit 5.0 software was used to fit and identify the parent probability distribution for the streamflow data. The frequency analysis result depicts that Log-Normal probability distribution with 3 parameters best fitted the flood time series. The estimated quintiles for 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 years return periods were found to be 210.29, 333.04, 453.16, 626.19, 769.75, and 925.41 m3 /s respectively. The 2D-HECRAS model output indicated that about 86,123,156,228,285, and 350 ha land has been inundated for an event of 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 years of return period respectively. The 100 years flood magnitude inundated about 78, 272 and 34 ha of irrigated command area, swamp area and population settlement respectively. Flood risk map was developed based on hazard and vulnerability indicators. A preliminary alignment of structural flood protection dike was identified with length of 1.5km at downstream and 0.5 km at upstream of bridge which would make 95% of the settlement area on the left bank safe. The study has shown that the middle and lower part the study area is more inundated than upper parts. Therefore, the affected areas were whether to be free of infrastructure development, investment and residence of people or construct flood protection structure in order to avoid the risk of flooding in the area especially closer to the Great Akaki River
