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Michael Kvitrud
Updated 10/16/03 by
Danelle
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The UW-Stevens Point AWRA Chapter has publications available for public to aid in their understanding of water resources. Three publications, entitled "Water Resources Notes," "Watershed Management - Principles and Practices," and "Hydrology Outlined" are complete with problem sets and laboratory exercises in water resources. Each publication is available for a cost of $10 each. Information for obtaining one is included at the bottom of this page.
The first publication is an excellent introductory water resources manual for water courses titled, "Water Resources Notes". This manual is an introduction to water resources with problem sets and laboratory exercises.
Contents:
- Water as a Substance
- Water in the Biosphere
- Aquatic Ecology
- Water Quality
- Water Resources Management
"Watershed Management - Principles and Practices" is a guide that focuses on the purposes and framework of watershed management. This publication details the study of the effect of land use on water quality, yield, and timing.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Purposes of watershed management
- Framework of watershed management
- Watershed analysis to determine problems/potentials
- Watershed management planning and analysis - sources
- Watershed management planning and analysis - tools and techniques
- Land forming practices for surface runoff control
- Structural practices for moving water safely
- Structural practices for retaining water on site
- Techniques to stabilize stream channels
- Improving watershed utility by improving on-site water supply
- Protecting water quality by access control
- Vegetative management for quantity and quality control
- Watershed rehabilitation techniques
- Wetlands in watershed management
"Hydrology Outlined" is the study of the physical characteristics of surface and subsurface water occurrence and flow. Includes laboratory studies on the measurement, analysis, and prediction of hydrologic phenomena.
Contents:
- Hydrologic data and data sources
- Data analysis - statistics in hydrology
- Precipitation
- Interception
- Infiltration processes
- Water in the zone of aeration - percolation and soil moisture
- Evaporation
- Hydraulics - flow of water in systems
- Measuring stream flow
- Stream flow analysis, the single-storm response hydrograph separation
- Long term analysis - evaluation of seasonal/yearly hydrograph
- Peak flow determination - methods, the rational method, the unit hydrograph, and synthetic unit hydrograph
- Flood routing - channel and reservoir routing and routing in practice
- Ground water - water in the zone of saturation
- Statistics in hydrology - considering more than two variables
If you have any questions regarding these publications, or wish to purchase, please contact the UW-Stevens Point Student Chapter of AWRA at:
Phone: (715) 346-4613
Fax: (715) 346-3624
E-Mail: awra@uwsp.edu