NWPHYD003 — Develop and maintain ratings
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What an assessment for NWPHYD003 must cover
64 assessable components: 4 elements (21 performance criteria), 36 performance evidence and 7 knowledge evidence requirements. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.
Elements & performance criteria
1 Review individual measurements
- 1.1Identify monitoring objectives of site and stage discharge ratings requirements
- 1.2Review historical discharge measurements, time series data and stage discharge rating curves and compare against expected trends
- 1.3Use standard processes and software to check, edit and verify field data
- 1.4Analyse, correct and adjust data utilising field measurements and data
2 Develop rating curves
- 2.1Analyse existing measurements to establish trends and compare with existing ratings
- 2.2Identify events at monitoring site that can affect stage discharge curve
- 2.3Identify sources of error in ratings
- 2.4Confirm and verify existing trends whilst developing rating curves
- 2.5Identify and define new trends whilst developing rating curves
- 2.6Develop rating curves in compliance with industry and stakeholder requirements
- 2.7Use theoretical methods to create and extend ratings
- 2.8Document processes and observations to provide traceability and accountability for quality assurance
- 2.9Apply standard formulae to create ratings for pre-calibrated measuring structures
- 2.10Apply quality codes to rating curves utilising workplace procedures and stakeholder requirements
3 Maintain rating curves
- 3.1Confirm accuracy of rating curves using recent measurements and review trends and rating applicability
- 3.2Adjust and maintain rating curves based on new information from data reviews, changed site conditions and additional field data
- 3.3Retrieve and analyse current, historic and trend data using appropriate mathematical techniques
- 3.4Document processes, observations and adjustments made
4 Report rating curves
- 4.1Prepare and store required archival data to guarantee data security
- 4.2Prepare and disseminate ratings according to stakeholder requirements
- 4.3Make recommendations for future observations
Performance evidence
- applying appropriate quality codes to a rating
- applying mathematical modelling and analytical tools
- applying t-tests to determine whether a new rating is required
- calculating flow rates manually using a set of cross-sections and a long-section
- calculating flow rates through and over structures
- calculating the overall roughness coefficient of a channel consisting of multiple elements
- collecting, storing, archiving and analysing data
- creating ratings including:
- adjusting gaugings, hydrograph trace and ratings to a common datum
- checking hydrographic data for correctness and accuracy in preparation for creating ratings
- creating ratings manually using methods for standard measuring structures
- developing rating techniques to handle seasonal rating changes
- identifying and recognising causes of progressive, cyclical and sudden rating changes
- identifying backwater-affected stations and using techniques to rate them
- identifying characteristics of ratings appropriate to various cross-section types and flow
- identifying errors in rating, and incorrect and impossible ratings
- identifying the possibilities and limitations of scale models for generating ratings
- using computer systems to create ratings
- drawing an accurate rating by hand
- establishing relationships between variables including stage versus flow and conductivity versus salinity
- estimating channel roughness from photographs
- fitting a rating curve using various mathematical techniques available in relevant software packages
- gathering and interpreting complex documentation and applying it to the development and maintenance of rating curves
- identifying and addressing potential or actual operational problems
- identifying appropriate sections to use for slope-area flow calculations
- identifying gradual stream changes and adopting rating techniques
- identifying gross errors in ratings and the data used to compile them
- identifying short-term rating changes, their causes and means of correctly processing them
- identifying the elements of a stream bed and channel that affect ratings
- identifying, reporting and providing solutions to a range of flow conditions
- interpreting a range of organisational documents
- interpreting and applying technical documentation to the collection, analysis and reporting of hydrometric data
- recording information
- using a spreadsheet to perform calculations
- using graphical logarithmic methods to extend a rating
- using remote work communication systems
Knowledge evidence
- basis of statistical goodness of fit tests
- computer software relevant to the analysis and archiving of hydrographic data
- elements of a stream bed and channel that affect the rating
- mathematical and scientific techniques relevant to the analysis of hydrographic data
- relationship between roughness coefficients including Chezy and Manning
- t-tests
- Work Health and Safety procedures
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Related units
- NWPHYD002 — Apply principles of open channel hydraulics
- NWPHYD004 — Plan water resource management
- NWPHYD005 — Process and report hydrographic time series data
- NWPHYD006 — Measure discharge and process discharge data using a range of methods and equipment
- NWPHYD007 — Measure discharge using wading method
- NWPHYD008 — Operate, maintain and decommission monitoring sites
- NWPHYD009 — Undertake surveying of monitoring sites
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