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The Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservancy District developed three different lag equations corresponding to mountainous, foothill, and valley areas near Riverside County, California (Anonymous, 1963).

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(Mountainous) 15.19
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(Foothills) 15.20
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(Valleys) 15.21

where:

TLAG - lag time in hours.

L - maximum flow length in miles.

Lca - length to the centroid in miles.

S - weighted slope along the maximum flow path length in ft/mile.

The typical characteristics of watersheds for which the Riverside County equations were used include the following:

Areas from 2 to 650 square miles.


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