| Abstract: | After the devastating floods caused by Hurricane Mitch in 1998, maps of the areas and depths of the 50-year-flood inundation at 15 municipalities in Honduras were prepared as a tool for agencies involved in reconstruction and planning. This report, which is one in a series of 15, presents maps of areas in the municipality of Olanchito that would be inundated by a 50-year-flood of Rio Uchapa. Geographic Information System (GIS) coverages of the flood inundation are available on a computer in the municipality of Olanchito as part of the Municipal GIS project and on the Internet at the Flood Hazard Mapping Web page (http://mitchnts1.cr.usgs.gov/projects/floodhazard.html). These coverages allow users to view the flood inundation in much more detail than is possible using the maps in this report.
Water-surface elevations for a 50-year-flood discharge of 243 cubic meters per second on Rio Uchapa at Olanchito were estimated using HEC-RAS, a one-dimensional, steady-flow, step-backwater computer program. The channel and floodplain cross sections used in HEC-RAS were developed from an airborne light-detection-and-ranging (LIDAR) topographic survey of the area. There are no nearby long-term stream-gaging stations on Rio Uchapa; therefore, the 50-year-flood discharge for Rio Uchapa was estimated using a regression equation that relates the 50-year-flood discharge to drainage area and mean annual precipitation. The drainage area and mean annual precipitation estimated for Rio Uchapa at Olanchito are 97.1 square kilometers and 1,178 millimeters, respectively. |
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| Citation Author: | Kresch, David L.; Mastin, M. C.; Olsen, T. D. |
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| Citation Series Number: | 2002-257 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Fifty-year flood-inundation maps for Olanchito, Honduras; 2002; OFR; 2002-257; Kresch, David L.; Mastin, M. C.; Olsen, T. D. |
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| Text: | Fifty-year flood-inundation maps for Olanchito, Honduras; 2002; OFR; 2002-257; Kresch, David L.; Mastin, M. C.; Olsen, T. D. |
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| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
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