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For geotechnical purposes, is there a procedure to "estimate" the scour depth for a certain stream or branch? The reason for this question is that there is requirement for geotechnical reports to determine the depth of scour. However, a scour analysis has not been performed and will not be performed.





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The Federal Highway Administration Hydraulic Engineering Circular No. 18 (HEC-18) is titled "Evaluating Scour at Bridges". The program HY-9 performs calculations based on HEC-18.
They also have Hydraulic Engineering Circular No. 20 (HEC-20)titled "Stream Stability at Highway Structures"
Web site:
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/
Software may be available from McTrans, Univ. of Fla.
http://mctrans.ce.ufl.edu/
Hope this helps.
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