The survey of a river may also include which determination?

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When surveying a river, the data you collect focus on how the water moves and how the channel behaves. Velocity and flow characteristics describe the speed, depth, cross-sectional shape, surface slope, and overall discharge of the stream. This hydraulic information is fundamental for understanding how the river carries water, how it may respond to rainfall, and how to design structures or map floodplains. Weather patterns are meteorological and not determined through a river survey, fish populations are ecological data not typically obtained in standard surveying, and while riverbed composition can be studied in sediment work, the core surveying data that directly support hydraulic calculations are the velocity and flow characteristics.