HEC-RAS
The measured lengths between cross sections.
What are reach lengths?
What is bridges, roads, and other critical infrastructure?
The depth of water above the invert of the culvert at the outlet.
What is tailwater?
Professor Mike's position at Hg Consult.
What is Associate Vice President?
FIS stands for.
What is a flood insurance study?
Data points at the top of channel that are uniformly entered for each cross section throughout the model.
What are bank stations?
An erosional feature in stream bottoms that ultimately leads to widening streambanks.
What is a headcut?
What the 8 in 8'x5' stands for.
What is width?
The number of semesters Professor Mike has taught hydrology.
What is 1?
Acronyms used for submittals needed for flood mapping revisions.
Roughness coefficients entered for LOB, Channel, ROB or as needed based on land use changes.
What is Manning's n-value?
Variable that increases when rural streams are straightened.
What is slope?
Chemical process that is ultimate cause of most CMP failures.
What is rust?
The number of times Professor Mike took the PE Exam.
What is 2?
The information requested from FEMA for work in floodplains.
What is a HEC-RAS model?
Areas of the cross sections that will contain water that is not actively being conveyed.
Rock features used to slow water so that sediment and debris settle out during high water events.
What are baffles?
An additional amount of height above the base flood elevation used as a factor of safety.
What is freeboard?
The topic of the video assigned during the only snow day of the semester.
What is the 1993 Flood?
The storm frequency that the FEMA mapping is based on.
What is the 100-year storm event?
Coefficients that are increased upstream and downstream at bridge crossings.
What are expansion/contraction coefficients?
Acronym for triangular section of rock used to realign eroded streambanks.
What is LPSTP?
Type of liner used to rehabilitate old pipes with structural defects.
What is insituform liners?
The name of the State involved with the conference calls that Professor Mike is on every Tuesday at the start of class.
What is Texas?
The name of the website where FEMA mapping and reports can be found.
What is the FEMA Map Service Center?