Capital Flood definition
Capital Flood means the runoff produced by a fifty (50)-year frequency design storm falling on a saturated watershed (soil moisture at field capacity). A fifty (50)-year frequency design storm has a probability of 1/50 of being equaled or exceeded in any year.
Examples of Capital Flood in a sentence
CWE conducted a hydrologic analysis using the Modified Rational Method (MODRAT) in Watershed Modeling System (WMS) to evaluate the reservoir routing and pumping from the interconnected wetlands/ detention basin system under Capital Flood and Standard Urban Stormwater Mitigation Plan (SUSMP) conditions.