Q. Which of the following method does not give more than 3% error in the determination of the capacity of a reservoir?

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Q. The surcharge storage in a dam reservoir is the volume of water stored ________________

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Q. The useful storage in a dam reservoir is the volume of water stored __________________

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Q. The dead storage in a dam reservoir is the available volume for collection of silt and sediment between _______________

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Q. Bank storage in a dam reservoir _________________

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Q. The valley storage reduces the effective storage capacity of a reservoir.

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Q. The maximum level to which the water rises during the worst design flood is known as _________________________

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Q. Which of the following formula can be used to determine the storage when three consecutive sections at equal height are taken?

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Q. Average yield of a storage reservoir is the arithmetic average of its ________________

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Q. While planning a water supply reservoir as compared to an irrigation reservoir the design yield may be kept __________________

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Q. Yield of a reservoir represents ___________________

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Q. Design yield of a storage reservoir is kept _______________

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Q. Who did the first effort to give empirical relations for converting the yearly rainfall value into the yearly runoff for the given catchment?

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Q. In which of the following method, the catchments were categorized as good, bad and average catchments to account for the general characteristics of the catchment?

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Q. What is the value of Barlow’s runoff percentage (K) for hills and plains with little cultivation?

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Q. What is the value of Lacey’s monsoon duration factor for a good year?

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Q. Which of the following yield formula is used for the catchments of West Maharashtra state of India?

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Q. Which of the following formula for calculating yield can be applied to all catchments?

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Q. According to the Inglis formula, the non-ghat areas are the one where rainfall is _____________

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Q. The design annual rainfall for the catchment of a proposed reservoir has been computed to be 99 cm. The catchment area contributing to the proposed reservoir is 1000 sq.km having a mean annual temperature of 20°C. Calculate the annual design catchment yield for the reservoir using Khosla’s formula.

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