PPT-Methods for Determining Maximum Flood Elevations Landward of Failed Levees:

An Example from the Great Missouri River Flood of 2011 Presenter Lowell Blankers PE CFM Flood Risk and Floodplain Management USACE Omaha District Co Authors Laurel Hamilton EI Roger Kay PE. Slides from Prof. . Roy Dokka. Global sea-level has been constant over the past 100 years.. Global sea-level has been slowing since the last glacial maximum.. The Seas Are Rising. Gulf. of. Mexico. The Paradigm (red) underpinning plans to restore the Louisiana coast cannot explain the observed subsidence. It is not just the wetlands, it is entire coast.. An Example from the Great Missouri . River Flood of 2011. Presenter: Lowell Blankers, PE, CFM. Flood Risk and Floodplain Management. USACE, Omaha District. Co Authors:. Laurel Hamilton, EI. Roger Kay, PE. Elco. . Koks. & Hans de Moel . Brief overview. What is flood risk?. Modelling the . hazard. Preparing the exposure data. Maximum damages and depth-damage curves. The damage assessment. Applying mitigation measures. An Economic Assessment of U.S. Counties with Levees. Ezra Boyd. Geography Graduate Student. Louisiana State University. Research sponsored by. Outline. Data, hypothesis, and theory. Analysis and results. Feb 21, 2012. www.floods.org. Larry Larson P. E. , CFM. Executive Director, ASFPM. National Flood Policy-Levees. National Levee Infrastructure and Floodplain and Flood Risk Management . Brendan Murphy. CE 397 Flood Forecasting. May 4, 2015. High-Resolution FEMA Flood Maps. Challenges:. Requires high-resolution topography. Requires detailed mapping & hydrologic records. High . costs. OBJECTIVE. : Explain the advantages and disadvantages of expedient. flood . works. Supporting Objectives. Describe various expedient flood works. Identify four methods of capping a levee. Identify the basic materials required for various methods of expedient flood control. What’s the situation at points A and B in terms of:. a. gradient . b. stream velocity. c. erosive power?. Headwaters. What does a stream carry and how?. Total load (visible and invisible). GLACIAL RIVER. WARREN. Meandering Stream Channel. Delta. MS River Delta vs. “The Delta”. GEOLOGIC vs. GEOGRAPHIC . The 2011 Floods. Why did it flood this year?. Well above average precipitation over the entire Mississippi River watershed. From Hurricane Betsy to Hurricane Katrina to Hurricane ?? 2 Flood Control Act of 1928 What happened in 1927? What are the immunity provisions? Flood Control Act of 1928, 33 U. S. C. §702c -- which states that "[n]o liability of any kind shall attach to or rest upon the United States for any damage from or by floods or flood waters at any place" Elco. . Koks. & Hans de Moel . Brief overview. What is flood risk?. Modelling the . hazard. Preparing the exposure data. Maximum damages and depth-damage curves. The damage assessment. Applying mitigation measures. Sjors . H.W. Scheres. EMBO course . 2019. Birkbeck. College, London. Agenda. An intuitive introduction. Alignment. Dealing with the incomplete problem. maxCC. . vs. ML (real-space). Classification. B. Bonaccorsi. 1. , T. Moramarco. 1. , Leonardo Valerio Noto. 2. , S. Barbetta. 1. 1: . Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, CNR-IRPI, Perugia, Italy . 2: . Dipartimento di Ingegneria, . Daums. for the NFIP. Paul Rooney. FEMA Resilience / Federal Insurance and Mitigation / Risk Management. National Flood Insurance Program. NFIP insures about $1.3 Trillion in property. To be eligible, communities must agree to minimum building...