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Estimation of Flood Flows on the Big Sioux River Between Akron, Iowa, and North Sioux City, South Dakota ESTIMATION OF FLOOD FLOWS ON THE BIG SIOUX RIVER BETWEEN AKRON, IOWA, AND NORTH SIOUX CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA ByCOLINA. NIEHUS U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4121 Prepared in cooperation with the CITY OF NORTH SIOUX CITY and UNION COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City, South Dakota 1996 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BRUCE BABBITT, Secretary U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Gordon P. Eaton, Director For addtional information write to: Copies of this report can be purchased from: District Chief U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Geological Survey Branch of Information Services 1608 Mt. View Rd. Box 25286 Rapid City, SD 57702 Denver, CO 80225-0046 CONTENTS Abstract.................................................................................................................................................................................. 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................^ 1 Purpose ..............................................................................................................................................................^ 2 Description of the study area....................................................................................................................................... 2 Drainage basins.................................................................................................................................................. 2 Streamflow.................................................................................................................. 2 Estimated flood flows at selected sites using various methods ............................................................................................. 6 Drainage-area-ratio methods....................................................................................................................................... 7 Flood-frequency analysis of the Big Sioux River at Akron gaging-station peak flows and concurrent daily flows from tributaries within the various reaches............................................................... 9 Independence/dependence analysis of the Big Sioux River at Akron gaging-station and tributary flows within the various reaches..................................................................................................... 10 Complete dependence of the Big Sioux River at the Akron gaging-station and tributary peak flows within the various reaches........................................................................................................... 15 Summary of estimated flood flows.............................................................................................................................. 16 Best estimate of flood flows at selected sites......................................................................................................................... 17 Summaiy..........................................................................................................._ 18 Selected references................................................................................................................................................................ 19 ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Map showing selected streamflow-gaging stations in and near the study area .......................................................... 3 2. Map showing drainage basins in the study area ......................................................................................................... 5 3. Graphs showing peak and daily flows for selected periods for the Big Sioux River at Akron, Iowa, and Brule Creek near Elk Point, South Dakota, gaging stations.......................................................... 12 4. Graphs showing daily flows for selected periods for the Brule Creek near Elk Point, South Dakota, and nearby Iowa gaging stations........................................................................................ 13 5. Graphs showing daily flows for selected periods for the Brule Creek near Elk Point, South Dakota, and nearby Iowa and Nebraska gaging stations.................................................................................. 14 6. Graph showing flood-flow frequency curves for the Big Sioux River downstream from North Sioux City, South Dakota, using various methods, and for the Big Sioux River at Akron, Iowa ........................................ 17 TABLES 1. Summary of drainage basins in the study area........................................................................................................ 4 2. Summary of drainage basins at selected locations between the Akron, Iowa, gaging station and North Sioux City, South Dakota....................................................................................................................... 6 3. Summary of flood-frequency results for selected gaging stations within and near the study area......................... 7 4. Summary of flood-frequency results at selected locations using the drainage-area method with specified exponents ......................................................................................................................................... 9 5. Summary of flood-frequency results at selected locations using the drainage-area method, assuming complete dependence of the Big Sioux River and downstream tributaries ............................................ 16 6. Summary of flood-frequency results at selected locations using the regional-regression equation method, assuming complete dependence of the Big Sioux River and downstream tributaries .............................. 16 7. Summary of the best flood-frequency estimates at selected locations.................................................................... 18 Contents III Estimation of Flood Flows on the Big Sioux River Between Akron, Iowa, and North Sioux City, South Dakota 8/Colin A. Niehus ABSTRACT Based on the various analyses that were done, the drainage-area-ratio method best esti­ This report presents estimated flood flows mated the flood flows for the Akron to North for specified frequencies at selected locations on Sioux City reach of the Big Sioux River. The best the Big Sioux River between the Akron, Iowa, estimates of 10-, 50-, 100-, and 500-year flood streamflow-gaging station and North Sioux City, flows at the location downstream from North South Dakota. The selected locations include: at Sioux City are 35,300, 70,400, 89,100, and the Akron gaging station, downstream from the 142,000 cubic feet per second, respectively. Richland-Westfield Creek Basins, downstream from the Brule Creek Basin, downstream from the Upper West Boundary Big Ditch and Rock Creek INTRODUCTION Basins, downstream from Broken Kettle Basin, and downstream from North Sioux City. The The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) flood flows for the 10-, 50-, 100-, and 500-year was established by the National Flood Insurance Act recurrence intervals will be used to support a of 1968 and further defined by the Flood Disaster Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Protection Act of 1973. The 1968 Act provided flood Insurance Study. insurance within communities that were willing to Four methods were used to estimate the adopt flood-plain management programs to mitigate future flood losses. In order to develop these flood flows. The first method involved the use of programs, the identification of flood-plain areas within drainage-area ratios raised to specified exponents the United States and the establishment of flood-risk to transfer the flood-frequency relation from the zones within these areas was required. Akron gage to the selected downstream locations. Flood Insurance Studies (FIS's), restudies, and The second method was a flood-frequency anal­ Limited Map Maintenance Program FIS projects for ysis based on a summation of the Akron gaging- flood-prone communities are necessary to meet the station peak flows and concurrent tributary daily requirements of the National Flood Insurance and flows from within the various study reaches. The Flood Disaster Protection Acts. FIS's provide third method was an independence/dependence communities with sufficient technical information to enable them to adopt and amend flood-plain manage­ analysis of the Akron gaging-station flows and the ment measures required for participation in the NFIP. tributary flows from the various study reaches. They also assist in developing flood-risk information The fourth method was a flood-frequency analysis necessary to establish and maintain accurate actuarial assuming complete dependence of the Akron flood-insurance premiums. peak flows and the tributary peak flows from the North Sioux City, Union County, and the U.S. various study reaches. Geological Survey (USGS) entered into a cooperative Introduction 1 agreement for 1995-96 to estimate flood flows on the Drainage Basins Big Sioux River between Akron, Iowa, and the Drainage in southern Lincoln and Union Coun­ southern corporate limits of North Sioux City, South ties in South Dakota and Plymouth and Woodbury Dakota. The results of this hydrology study will be Counties in Iowa is well developed and is primarily by used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to accom­ the Big Sioux River and its tributaries. The Big Sioux plish hydraulic analyses necessary to support a Federal River in the study reach flows from north to south and Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood forms the boundary between
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