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Volume Calculations
OSI is well-versed in sediment and water volume calculation methods and applications. We have broad experience analyzing volume differences for dredge payment reports, creating time series difference maps to highlight sediment erosion and deposition, and calculating siltation rates in reservoirs as a function of reservoir age.
Volume Calculations Fig. 1
Example of reservoir volume draw down curve at 1 foot elevation change interval.
Volume Calculations Fig. 2
Example of "average end area" statistics for one contributing cross section used in the volume calculation.
Volume Calculations Fig. 3
Summary table showing sediment volume available for removal in order to reach the channel design template.
Volume Calculations Fig. 4
Representative Projects
Charting Navigable Waters
Ocean Surveys was a subcontractor to the prime on NOAA’s very first contracted hydrographic survey. Since 1999, OSI has acted as a prime contractor and surveyed thousands of square nautical miles of navigable waters on behalf of NOAA (see table ...
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Reservoir Safe Yield Analysis: Lynchburg, Virginia
To support a reservoir siltation analysis of the Pedlar Reservoir, Ocean Surveys performed a detailed hydrographic survey and calculated the existing capacity. Following completion of the survey, a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) of the reservoir bottom surface was created and ...
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