Question: Annual maximum flood data for Floyd River, Iowa is provided in the following table. Assuming the data is of log - normal distribution ( essentially

Annual maximum flood data for Floyd River, Iowa is provided in the following table. Assuming the data is of log-normal distribution (essentially, the variable conforms to Normal distribution after a natural log transformation), please calculate: the mean and standard deviation of log-transformed data. Based on this information, answer the following questions. (10 Points)
(a) If we are building a dam for this river with a safety design criteria of 200 year, calculate the hydrologic risk of failure for the dam in 40 years. (2 Points)
(b) If we can take a 10% risk that the dam fails for 40 years, what is the return year we need to design for? (Hint: you can read off the hydrologic risk figure I pasted in my slide, or you can solve it from the hydrologic risk equation. Answer is somewhere around 400 years)(2 Points)
(c) What are the corresponding flood magnitudes for 200 year flood and the return year you calculate in problem (b)?(4 Points)
(d) What is the return period of a flood event of 35,000 cfs?(2 Points)
\table[[Year,Discharge (cfs),Year,Discharge (cfs)],[1935,1460,1955,2260],[1936,4050,1956,318],[1937,3570,1957,1330],[1938,2060,1958,970],[1939,1300,1959,1920],[1940,1390,1960,15,100],[1941,1720,1961,2870],[1942,6280,1962,20,600],[1943,1360,1963,3810],[1944,7440,1964,726],[1945,5320,1965,7500],[1946,1400,1966,7170],[1947,3240,1967,2000],[1948,2710,1968,829],[1949,4520,1969,17,300],[1950,4840,1970,4740],[1951,8320,1971,13,400],[1952,13,900,1972,2940],[1953,71,500,1973,5660],[1954,6250,,]]
Annual maximum flood data for Floyd River, Iowa

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