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Uniform Flow in Channels

Table 1.2
Values of the Manning roughness coefficient n

TIPO DE CANAL Y DESCRIPCIÓN MINIMUM NORMAL MAXIMUM

A. Closed conduits flowing partially full
A-1 Metal
a. Bronze, Smooth 0.009 0.010 0.013
b. Steel
1. 'Lockbar' and soldier 0.010 0.012 0.014
2. Riveted and spiral 0.013 0.016 0.017
c. Cast steel
Lined 0.010 0.013 0.014
2. Without covering 0.011 0.0.14 0.016
Commercial Steel
Black 0.012 0.014 0.015
2. Galvanized 0.013 0.016 0.017
e. Corrugated Metal
Lower drainage 0.017 0.019 0.021
Storm drainage 0.021 0.024 0.030
A-2 No metal
a. Lucita 0.008 0.009 0.010
b. Glass 0.009 0.010 0.013
c. Cement
Surface polishing 0.010 0.011 0.013
2. Mortar 0.011 0.013 0.015
d. Concrete
Sewer, straight and free of waste 0.010 0.011 0.013
2. Housing. elbows, connections, and some waste 0.011 0.013 0.014
3. Finished 0.011 0.012 0.014
4. Cloaca with valves, entries, etc.; rectum 0.013 0.015 0.017
5. Unfinished, with metal formwork 0.012 0.013 0.014
6. Unfinished, polished wood formwork 0.012 0.014 0.016
7. Unfinished, with common wooden formwork 0.015 0.017 0.020
Wood
Machihembrada 0.010 0.012 0.014
2. Treated sheet 0.015 0.017 0.020
f. Ceramics
Common tile drainage 0.011 0.013 0.017
2. Vitrified cloaca 0.011 0.014 0.017
3. Vitrified cloaca with valves, entrances, etc 0.013 0.015 0.017
4. Lower drain vitrified with open joints 0.014 0.016 0.018
g. Brick masonry
Glassy 0.011 0.013 0.015
2. Coated with cement mortar 0.012 0.015 0.017
h. Sanitary collectors lined with waste
of black water, with elbows and connections 0.012 0.013 0.016
i. Paved floor, smooth bottom sewer 0.016 0.019 0.020
j. Brushed masonry, cemented 0.018 0.025 0.030

B. Lined or manufactured channels

B-1 Metal
a. Smooth steel surface
1. Without painting 0.011 0.012 0.014
2. Painted 0.012 0.013 0.017
b. Corrugated 0.021 0.025 0.030
B-2 No metal
Cement
Clean on the surface 0.010 0.011 0.013
2. Mortar 0.011 0.013 0.015

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b. Wood
Untreated brushing 0.010 0.012 0.014
2. Brushed, creosoted 0.011 0.012 0.015
3. Without brushing 0.011 0.013 0.015
4. Planks with slats 0.012 0.015 0.018
5. Coated with waterproof paper 0.010 0.014 0.017
c. Concrete
1. Trowel finish 0.011 0.013 0.015
Float finish 0.013 0.015 0.016
3. Finished with gravel at the bottom 0.015 0.017 0.020
4. Unfinished 0.014 0.017 0.020
5. Gunita in the correct section 0.016 0.019 0.023
6. Gunita in wavy section 0.018 0.022 0.025
7. On even excavated rock 0.017 0.020
8. On irregular excavated rock 0.022 0.027
d. Concrete floor finished with grout with the
sides of:
Stone set in mortar 0.015 0.017 0.020
2. Stone overturned in mortar 0.017 0.020 0.024
3. Cemented broken stone masonry and 0.016 0.020 0.024
revoked
4. Cemented broken stone masonry 0.020 0.025 0.030
5. Loose broken stone or riprap 0.020 0.030 0.035
e. Gravel bed with side of
Formwork concrete 0.017 0.020 0.025
2. Stone overturned in mortar 0.020 0.023 0.026
3. Loose broken stone or riprap 0.023 0.033 0.036
f. Brick
Glazed 0.011 0.013 0.015
2. In a cement mortar 0.012 0.015 0.018
g. Masonry
Cemented split stone 0.017 0.025 0.030
2. Loose broken stone 0.023 0.032 0.035
h. Cut and arranged stone 0.013 0.015 0.017
Asphalt
Smooth 0.013 0.013
2. Rugged 0.016 0.016
j. Vegetative cover 0.030 0.500
C. Excavated or Dredged
a. Earth, straight and uniform
Recently finished clean 0.016 0.018 0.020
Clean with some use 0.018 0.022 0.025
3. Gravel, uniform section, clean 0.022 0.025 0.030
4. With short moss, little grass 0.022 0.027 0.033
b. Tierra, curvo y lento
1. Without vegetation 0.023 0.025 0.030
2. Moss, some grasses 0.025 0.030 0.033
3. Dense pastures or aquatic plants in deep channels 0.030 0.035 0.040
4. Land fund and sides of broken stone 0.028 0.030 0.035
5. Rocky bottom and banks with grasses 0.025 0.035 0.040
6. Pebble bottom and clean sides 0.030 0.040 0.050
c. Dug with a shovel or dredged
1. Without vegetation 0.025 0.028 0.033
2. Little shrub on the benches 0.035 0.050 0.060
d. Cut rock
Lisa and uniform 0.025 0.035 0.040
2. Dentate or irregular 0.035 0.040 0.050

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e. Channels without maintenance, grass and bushes untrimmed
Dense pastures, tall as the depth of the flow 0.050 0.080 0.120
Clean background, bushes on the sides 0.040 0.050 0.080
3. Likewise, at the highest level of the flow 0.045 0.070 0.110
4. Dense shrubs, high level 0.080 0.100 0.140

D. Natural courses
D-1 Minor courses (width greater than the flood level
< 100 ft)
a. Courses in the plain
Clean, straight, full level, without flaws or deep holes 0.025 0.030 0.033
2. Just like above, but with more stones and grasses 0.030 0.035 0.040
3. Clean, curved, some wells and banks 0.033 0.040 0.045
4. Just like above, but with some grass and stones. 0.035 0.045 0.050
5. Just like above, lower levels, more slope and section 0.040 0.048 0.055
ineffective.
6. Just like 4, but with more stones 0.045 0.050 0.060
7. Dirty stretches, with grass and deep wells. 0.050 0.070 0.080
8. Sections with many pastures, deep wells or routes 0.075 0.100 0.150
from the flood with a lot of wood and low shrubs.

[Link] courses, without vegetation in the channel, slopes with

usually pronounced slopes, trees and shrubs
along the slopes submerged for high levels
1. Bottom: gravel, pebbles, and some rocks 0.030 0.040 0.050
2. Bottom: pebbles with large rocks 0.040 0.050 0.070
D-2. Flooded plain
a. Pastures, without shrubs
Short pastures 0.025 0.030 0.035
High pastures 0.030 0.035 0.050
b. Cultivated areas
1. Without cultivation 0.020 0.030 0.040
2. Mature crops aligned 0.025 0.035 0.045
3. Field of mature crops 0.030 0.040 0.050
c. Shrubs
Sparse bushes, many grasses 0.035 0.050 0.070
2. Small shrubs and trees, in winter 0.035 0.050 0.060
3. Small bushes and trees, in summer 0.040 0.060 0.080
Medium to dense shrubs in winter 0.045 0.070 0.110
Medium to dense shrubs in summer 0.070 0.100 0.160
d. Trees
Thick sauces, in summer and straight 0.110 0.150 0.200
2. Clear land with branches, without buds 0.030 0.040 0.050
3. Just like above, but with a large growth of shoots 0.050 0.060 0.080
4. Large groups of wood, some fallen trees 0.080 0.100 0.120
little inferior growth and flood level by
under the branches
5. Just like above, but with the flood level 0.100 0.120 0.160
reaching the branches

D-3 Important watercourses (width above at level of

flooding > 100 ft.) The values n are less than the
from the lower courses of similar description, since
banks offer less effective resistance.
a. Regular section without rocks and bushes 0.025 0.060
b. Irregular and rough section 0.035 0.100

Source: Ven Te Chow - Hydraulic of Channels

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