CCM Exam Question 2
Hard Copy Due Monday 29 March; PowerPoint* or HTML* Version Due Monday 5 April (Submit by Email for posting on class website for the whole world to see).

A homeowner in the town of Greenbrae (3 Corte Cayuga), in Marin County, California, is building a drainage system for her home that will be designed to handle the 1 hour 100-yr rainfall at the home site. In addition, the roof design is extremely sensitive to rainfall sustained over a 24 h period. Further, she would like to design a low irrigation landscaping system keyed to the average seasonal rainfall. She has hired you to:

(a) Determine the average seasonal rainfall at her site;

(b) Determine the range of seasonal rainfall amounts she can expect at the property most (67%) of the time;

(c) Determine the 100-yr 1 hour event at her site;

(d) Determine the 100-yr 24 hour event at her site.

Make sure that explanatory material is provided to the homeowner for each of your findings.