Some Aspects of the Sediment Transport Capacities of Ogbese and Owena Rivers

Abstract

In this paper, the effect of sediment transport capacities of Ogbese and Owena Rivers were examined. The data were obtained from field investigations carried out on the two rivers respectively. The result obtained is in the form of power law relationship. Calibrating yield the values for k1 and k2 which are the erosivily coefficients. When tested, the predicted models for the two rivers performed well when compared with the established models (R2 = 0.998, 0.929). It is concluded that models which will be useful for scientific and engineering applications on the two rivers have been developed.


(Nigeria Journal of Pure and Applied Physics: 2003 2 (1): 45-53)