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76 <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 />

959<br />

958<br />

957<br />

956<br />

955<br />

954<br />

953<br />

952<br />

951<br />

950<br />

949<br />

948<br />

947<br />

946<br />

945<br />

944<br />

943<br />

942<br />

941<br />

940<br />

939<br />

S Main St<br />

Private road<br />

0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000 16000 18000<br />

SR 604 / Easton Rd<br />

Distance upstream of the mouth, in feet<br />

EXPLANATION<br />

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

channel at current values and reduced by 5, 10, 15, and 20 percent on Little Chippewa Creek in Wayne County, Ohio.<br />

(WS, water surface; %, percent; n, Manning’s roughness coefficient)

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