Introductory technical guidance for civil engineers and other professional engineers and construction managers interested in flood control engineering. Here is what is discussed: 1. PRINCIPLES 2. STABILITY EVALUATION 3. STABILITY PROBLEMS 4. ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING 5. ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN 6. STABILITY DESIGN.
Introductory technical guidance for civil engineers and other professional engineers and construction managers interested in flood control engineering. Here is what is discussed: 1. CHARACTERISTICS OF CHANNELS IN ERODIBLE MATERIALS, 2. PRINCIPLES OF CHANNEL EQUILIBRIUM AND RESPONSE, 3. BED MATERIAL SIZE, 4. BANK MATERIALS AND VEGETATION, 5. ICE AND FROZEN GROUND.
Introductory technical guidance for civil engineers and other professional engineers, planners and construction managers interested in environmental design of flood control channels. Here is what is discussed: 1. GENERAL 2. CLEARING AND SNAGGING 3. FLOODWAYS 4. CHANNEL EXCAVATION 5. CHANNEL PAVING 6. CHANNEL SIDE SLOPE PROTECTION 7. EROSION CONTROL STRUCTURES AND CULVERTS 8. LEVEES AND FLOODWALLS 9. SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR URBAN PROJECTS 10. SELECTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES FOR A GIVEN PROJECT.
Technical guidance for civil engineers interested in environmental planning of flood control projects. Here is what is discussed: 1. INTRODUCTION 2. WATER QUALITY 3. FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY 4. ECOLOGICAL RESOURCES 5. CULTURAL RESOURCES 6. AESTHETIC RESOURCES.
Introductory technical guidance for professional engineers interested in flood water protection. Here is what is discussed: 1. INTRODUCTION, 2. HYDRAULIC DESIGN ASPECTS, 3. FLOW THROUGH BRIDGES, 4.TRANSITIONS, 5. SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS, 6. STABLE CHANNELS.
Introductory technical guidance for civil engineers, environmental engineers and other professional engineers and construction managers interested in environmental design of flood control channels. Here is what is discussed: 1. GENERAL, 2. CLEARING AND SNAGGING, 3. FLOODWAYS, 4. CHANNEL EXCAVATION, 5. CHANNEL PAVING, 6. CHANNEL SIDE SLOPE PROTECTION, 7. EROSION CONTROL STRUCTURES AND CULVERTS, 8. LEVEES AND FLOODWALLS, 9. SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR URBAN PROJECTS, 10. SELECTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES FOR A GIVEN PROJECT.
Primarily written as course material on flood control and drainage engineering for advanced students of civil engineering, this third edition is thoroughly revised. It accommodates recent developments in remote sensing, information technology and GIS technology. New additional material deals with problems of flood forecasting, flood plain prioritization and flood hazard zoning, and engineering measures for flood control. Drainage improvement is tackled, with particular regard to salinity and coastal aquifer management from the ingress of sea water. The book includes design problem-solving and case studies, making it practical and applications-oriented. The subject matter will be of considerable interest to civil engineers, agricultural engineers, architects and town planners, as well as other government and non-government organizations
Introductory technical guidance for civil engineers and other professional engineers and construction managers interested in flood control engineering. Here is what is discussed: 1. GENERAL, 2. RANKING OF FLOOD CONTROL METHODS, 3. ALIGNMENT AND PLANFORM, 4. SINGLE-CHANNEL STREAMS., 5. MULTICHANNEL STREAMS, 6. ALLUVIAL FANS, 7. LONGITUDINAL PROFILE AND GRADE CONTROLS, 8. CROSS SECTIONS AND HYDRAULIC CAPACITIES, 9. CONTROL OF MEANDERING, 10. BANK PROTECTION, 11. CONTROL OF SEDIMENT DEPOSITION.
Alluvial fans are gently sloping, fan-shaped landforms common at the base of mountain ranges in arid and semiarid regions such as the American West. Floods on alluvial fans, although characterized by relatively shallow depths, strike with little if any warning, can travel at extremely high velocities, and can carry a tremendous amount of sediment and debris. Such flooding presents unique problems to federal and state planners in terms of quantifying flood hazards, predicting the magnitude at which those hazards can be expected at a particular location, and devising reliable mitigation strategies. Alluvial Fan Flooding attempts to improve our capability to determine whether areas are subject to alluvial fan flooding and provides a practical perspective on how to make such a determination. The book presents criteria for determining whether an area is subject to flooding and provides examples of applying the definition and criteria to real situations in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, and elsewhere. The volume also contains recommendations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is primarily responsible for floodplain mapping, and for state and local decisionmakers involved in flood hazard reduction.