The Boss of your company, the White River Hydraulics and Construction Company, located in Dickinson, North Dakota, has asked you to work on a Request for Proposal concerning the construction of an irrigation canal for the winter wheat farmers of the Stanton County Grange. It is to be an eight-mile long unlined earthen canal that needs to carry a maximum flow rate of 74 ft3/s over a good loam bottom having a slope of 0.0009 and a side slope factor of 2.0. He has asked that you present him with all the proportional parameters necessary to cost out the project by close of business today