Author(s)

Abdulrazaq K. Abdulwahd¹, Mohammed Ch. Liejy¹, Mohanad A. Sulaiman², Nadhir Al-Ansari^3*

¹Technical Institute of Haweeja, Northern Technical University, Kirkuk, Iraq.
²General Commission for Running/Irrigation and Drainage, Kirkuk Province, Ministry of Water Resources, Kirkuk, Iraq.
³Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden.

The lack of water resources in many regions is the main challenge for the human being and to extended investigations. Water resources controlling and management is essential in the areas depending on the seasonal rainfall. This research aims to estimate the surface water runoff for Basin of Alrakhmah Valley located in the southwestern part of Kirkuk Province in northeastern of Iraq. Analyzing of Spatial data and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data has been conducted using Geographic Information System (GIS) to estimate the hydrological properties for the watershed valley with 158.5 km² surface area. The results showed that watershed valley type is from the fifth rank with a longitudinal shape and topography percentage of 0.568. The watershed textures found to be 3.24 and the drain density 1.5 at 3.49 river branching. Finally, the annual estimated surface water retreat according to the morpho-hydro climatic elements found to be 0.01286233 milliard cubic meter.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Digital Elevation Model (DEM), Spatial Data, Watershed

Abdulwahd, A. , Liejy, M. , Sulaiman, M. and Al-Ansari, N. (2020) Water Runoff Estimation Using Geographical Information System (GIS) for Alrakhmah Basin Valley Northeast of Iraq. Engineering, 12, 315-324. doi: 10.4236/eng.2020.126025.