This page is a listing of project reports available for downloading and viewing. Most of these documents are final draft versions. Documents are by category in reverse chronological order. NEED TO UPDATE!!!
Research Reports (2001 - Present):
Cleveland, T.G., Strom, K.B., Sharif, H., and Lui, X. 2013. ``Empirical Flow Parameters -- A Tool for Hydraulic Model Validity Assessment.'' Texas Department of Transportation, Research Report 0-6654-1. (FHWA/TX-14/0-6654-1) Report 0-6654-1
Cleveland, T.G., Strom, K.B., Barnes, W. J., and Dixon, J. V. 2013. ``Hydraulic Performance of Staggered-Barrel Culverts for Stream Crossings.'' Texas Department of Transportation, Research Report 0-6549-1. Report 0-6549-1
Cleveland, T.G., Thompson, D. B., Fang, X., and Li H-H. 2012 ``Establish Effective Lower Bounds of Watershed Slope for Traditional Hydrologic Methods.'' Texas Department of Transportation, Research Report 0-6382-1. Report 0-6382-1Cleveland, T.G., Thompson, D.B., and Fang,X. 2011. ``Use of the Rational and Modified Rational Method for Hydraulic Design.'' Texas Department of Transportation, Research Report 0-6070-1. Report 0-6070-1
Cleveland, T.G., Rainwater, K. A., Smornov, S, Barnes, W. J., DaCosta, L. R., Basnet, B., Azese, M., Mendoza, Z., Singleton, K., Murphy, H. N., and Ulary, A. 2010 ``Hydraulic Performance of Type-H Inlets'' Texas Department of Transportation, Research Report 0-5823-1. Report 0-5823-1
Cleveland, T.G., Thompson, D.B. 2009. ``Subdivision of Watersheds for Hydrologic Modeling.'' Texas Department of Transportation, Research Report 0-5822-01-2. Report 0-5822-1
Cleveland, T.G., and Botkins, W. 2008. ``Hypothetical Watershed Modeling - Block B.'' Harris County Flood Control District, Research Report in Support of the Floodwise Block-B Study. 2008_1102_SWMM_Hypothetical
Thompson, D.B., Fang, X., Cleveland, T. 2006. ``Timing Parameters for Texas Watersheds.'' Texas Department of Transportation, Research Project Summary Report 0-4696-S. PSR-0-4696-S
Asquith, W.H., Thompson, D.B., Cleveland, T.G., and Fang, X. 2005. ``Unit Hydrograph Estimation for Applicable Texas Watersheds.'' Texas Department of Transportation, Research Project Report 0-4193-4
Williams-Sether, T., Asquith, W.H., Thompson, D.B., Cleveland, T.G., and X. Fang. 2004. ``Empirical, Dimensionless, Cumulative-Rainfall Hyetographs for Texas.'' U.S.Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5075, 138p. SIR_2004_5075
Asquith, W.H., Thompson, D.B., Cleveland, T.G and Fang, X. 2004. ``Synthesis of Rainfall and Runoff Data Used for Texas Department of Transportation Research Projects 0-4193 and 0-4194.'' U.S. Geological Survey, Open File Report OFR 2004-1035. USGS_OFR2004-1035
Cleveland, T.G. 2003. ``Determination of Instantaneous Unit
Hydrographs for Houston from HCOEM and USGS OFR 96-250.''
Environmental Institute of Houston, 2003 Annual Report. University of Houston Clear Lake. pp. 10-15
EIH_2003
Also available at:
Link to EIH
Cleveland, T.G. and M. Smith. 2003. ``Demonstration of Remote Wireless Access to a Database for Communicating Water Quality Data.'' Final Report to Houston Department of Health and Human Services, Environmental Health Division DHHS_Report.PDF (Includes 2 Scripts)
Research Reports (1986 - 2000):
Cleveland, T.G., Davis, J.L., Zhu, H., Bougai, D., Linares, M. 2000. ``Investigation and Demonstration of Intervention Strategies to Improve Water Quality on Country Club Bayou.'' Final Report to Houston Wastewater Program, Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission, City of Houston, and the Environmental Institute of Houston Country_Club_Bayou_Report.PDF
Cleveland, T.G. 2000. ``Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan Solids Controls in Highway Construction Activities: Three Field Investigations and a Laboratory Study'' Final Report to Texas Department of Transportation, Report No. FHWA/TX-00/1425-8 SW3P_TxDOT_Report.PDF
Cleveland, T.G., Rogers, J. R., Chuang L., Yuan, D, Reddy, B. and Owens, T. 1996. Research into Production Cost Reduction by Energy Management of Houston's Surface and Groundwater System. Final Report to Planning and Operations Support, Department of Public Works and Engineering, City of Houston, Houston, TX, 178p. Cleveland and others, 1996
Wang. K.H., and Cleveland, T.G. 1995. ``Physical Modeling to Determine Head Loss at Selected Surcharged Sewer Manholes'' Final Report to Greater Houston Wastewater Program, (Contract No. 34125), 30p. Wang and Cleveland 1995
Wang. K.H., Cleveland, T.G., and Towsley, C. 1995. ``Physical Modeling to Determine Head Loss at Selected Surcharged Sewer Manholes'' Technical Memorandum for Reporting the Manhole Head Loss of 4-inch Model Scale Pipes, (Contract No. 34125), 10p. Wang, Cleveland, Towsley 1995
Cleveland, T.G., Goodwin, K.B., and B. Strider, 1993. ``Systematic Inspection and Severity Ranking of a Municipal Sewage Collection System,'' Final Report to Harris County Municipal Utility Districts #19,#20, and #73, UH-CEE-93-2, 67p. newport_report_1993.pdf
Cleveland, T.G., 1991. ``A Comparison of Sampling Design Criterion using a Lagrangian Particle Tracking Model for Transport in Porous Media'', Final Report to Houston Advanced Research Center, Woodlands, Texas. 54p. HARC_Document.pdf
Cleveland, T. G., 1989. "Sampling Strategies for Transport Parameter Identification" Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA. 94p. Cleveland_Dissertation
Cleveland - Senior Thesis.