HYDROLOGY AND HYDRAULICS

The difference between hydrology and hydraulics continues to fascinate me. In 1991, I attended an ASCE conference in San Francisco, and met a colleague who was working for a leading engineering firm. He had gotten his Ph.D. at a very reputable hydraulics school in the midwest, and had risen in the ranks to become section head.

When I took a look at his business card, it read: "John Doe, Chief Hydrologic Engineer." I could not resist asking him: "John, what do you know about hydrology?"

To which he responded, smiling: "Not much, but it sells better than hydraulics."

 

A tributary of Trout Creek, Colorado, showing perennial flow, estimated at 1 cfs.