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70 <strong>Stream</strong>-<strong>Profile</strong> <strong>Analyses</strong> <strong>Using</strong> a <strong>Step</strong>-<strong>Backwater</strong> <strong>Model</strong> <strong>for</strong> Selected Reaches in the Chippewa Creek Basin in Ohio<br />

Elevation, in feet above North American Vertical Datum of 1988<br />

990<br />

985<br />

980<br />

975<br />

970<br />

965<br />

960<br />

955<br />

950<br />

945<br />

940<br />

Railroad<br />

Salt St<br />

Abandoned railroad<br />

Abandoned railroad<br />

Private road<br />

Pipeline / private road<br />

Railroad<br />

Grant St / E Ohio Ave<br />

E Sunset Dr<br />

Eastern Rd<br />

Wall Rd<br />

Low head dam<br />

Private drive / <strong>for</strong>d<br />

Seville Rd<br />

0 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 35,000 40,000<br />

Greenwich Rd<br />

Distance upstream of mouth, in feet<br />

I-76 / SR 224<br />

Private drive<br />

Blake Rd<br />

EXPLANATION<br />

WS elevation<br />

SR 57 / Wadsworth Rd<br />

WS elev after 5% reduction<br />

to the channel n<br />

WS elev after 10% reduction<br />

to the channel n<br />

WS elev after 15% reduction<br />

to the channel n<br />

WS elev after 20% reduction<br />

to the channel n<br />

Minimum channel elevation<br />

Hydraulic structure<br />

Figure 3–2. Computed water-surface profiles <strong>for</strong> a bankfull discharge with Manning’s roughness coefficients in the main channel<br />

at current values and reduced by 5, 10, 15, and 20 percent on River Styx in Medina and Wayne Counties, Ohio. (WS, water surface;<br />

%, percent; n, Manning’s roughness coefficient)

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