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Design Flood: PMF, I.e., Probable Maximum Flood Is The Extreme Large Flood That Is Physically Possible

Design flood is the flood used to design hydraulic structures, with smaller structures like culverts designed for more frequent, smaller floods since failures would only cause temporary issues. Larger structures like dams and spillways are designed for more severe floods with longer return periods, as failures could result in massive loss of life and property. Probable maximum flood (PMF) is the largest physically possible flood, while standard project flood (SPF) is around 40-60% of PMF. PMF is used to design critical structures like dams and spillways where failure would be catastrophic.

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Design Flood: PMF, I.e., Probable Maximum Flood Is The Extreme Large Flood That Is Physically Possible

Design flood is the flood used to design hydraulic structures, with smaller structures like culverts designed for more frequent, smaller floods since failures would only cause temporary issues. Larger structures like dams and spillways are designed for more severe floods with longer return periods, as failures could result in massive loss of life and property. Probable maximum flood (PMF) is the largest physically possible flood, while standard project flood (SPF) is around 40-60% of PMF. PMF is used to design critical structures like dams and spillways where failure would be catastrophic.

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Design flood

Design flood is the flood adopted for the design of a hydraulic structure. It would be, obviously,
very costly affair to design any hydraulic structure so as to make it safe against the maximum
flood possible in the catchment. Smaller structures such as culverts, storm drainage systems
can be designed for relatively small floods (i.e., more frequent floods) as the consequences of a
higher than design flood may only cause temporary inconvenience and some repair works
without any loss of life and property. However, failure of structures such as spillway would
cause huge loss of life and property and, therefore, such structures should be designed for
relatively more severe floods having relatively larger return period. Table 2.5 provides guidelines
for selecting design floods (14). The terms PMF and SPF in the Table 2.5 have the following
meaning :
PMF, i.e., probable maximum flood is the extreme large flood that is physically possible
in a region as a result of severemost (including rare ones) combination of meteorological and
hydrological factors. SPF is the standard project flood that would result from a severe
combination of meteorological and hydrological factors. Usually, SPF is about 40 to 60% of
PMF.

The PMF is used for structures such as dams, spillways etc. whose failure would result
in huge loss of life and property. Table 2.6 provides guidelines for this purpose (15).

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