Prioritization of Susceptible Watershed to Sediment Yield and Evaluation of Best Management Practice: A Case Study of Awata River, Southern Ethiopia

Table 9

Summary of sediment calibrated parameter values for the study area.

No.	Parameter	Description of parameter	Range value	Calibrated value
1	USLE_P.mgt	USLE support practice factor	0–0.6	0.546
2	USLE_K.sol	USLE soil erodibility factor	0–0.1	0.012
3	LAT_SED.hru	Sediment concentration in lateral and groundwater flow	0–120	117.95
4	USLE_C.plant.dat	Universal soil loss equation land cover management factor	0.003–0.5	0.144
5	SPEXP.bsn	Parameter for calculating sediment re-entrained in channel sediment routing	1-2	1.61
6	CH_EQN.rte	Sediment routing method	0–0.001	0.00033
7	CH_ERODMO.rte	Channel erodibility factor	0-1	0.69