Download or read book Building Dikes and Levees written by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dikes and levees help protect people from rising floodwaters and hurricanes. Discover the engineering behind dikes and levees.
Download or read book Building Dikes and Levees written by Nancy Anderson and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dikes and levees are created to help protect communities from rising floodwaters and hurricanes. With the rising temperatures of our planet, our sea and water side communities continue to be in harms way. Levees and dikes are traditionally made of earth. These engineering marvels keep our communities safe. Lead your readers through this book to learn and discuss these geological ideas at work. This nonfiction book is paired with the fiction book, Jeffs Trip to Holland, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies.
Download or read book Building Dikes and Levees written by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dikes and levees help protect people from rising floodwaters and hurricanes. Discover the engineering behind dikes and levees.
Download or read book Guide for the Design of River Dikes written by Gouda CUR and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, practical recommendations are given for sound dike design. Particular emphasis is placed on design, management and maintenance. Coverage includes the assessment of soil properties and different types of loadings on a dike.
Download or read book Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands written by Paul F. Hudson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines interrelations between flood management, flooding, and environmental change, for advanced students, researchers, and practitioners.
Download or read book National Levee Safety and Dam Safety Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dams and Levees written by Kevin Reilly and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers discover the many ways in which dams and levees are marvels of modern engineering through accessible text and informative photographs. Each chapter focuses on an important aspect of these structures, including the history of their invention, examples of noteworthy dams and levees, related career paths, and stories of the tragedies that have occurred when dams and levees failed. This book's contents directly correlate with Next Generation Science Standards. Readers will gain a deeper appreciation and respect for the engineering behind dams and levees, and the influence these beautiful structures have on our society.
Download or read book Surveillance Maintenance and Diagnosis of Flood Protection Dikes written by Patrice Mériaux and published by Editions Quae. This book was released on 2007-10-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This technical guide is intended for personnel within services or structures involved in managing dikes that protect against floods in the case of a rise in river levels. It is intended for an audience of technicians and it aims to popularise: the functioning principles concerning a system of dikes, the risks run, monitoring methods and maintenance methods. Its aim is to justify and describe all the necessary measures to ensure the long life and security of the constructions.
Download or read book Dikes and Revetments written by Kristian Pilarczyk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Low-lying countries, such as the Netherlands, are strongly dependent on good and safe sea defences. In the past, the design of dikes and revetments was mostly based on vague experience, rather than on general valid calculation methods. The demand for reliable design methods for protective structures has, in the Netherlands, resulted in increased research in this field. These contributions have been prepared by Dutch experts participating in the study groups of the Technical Advisory Committee on Water Defences. The book opens with an outline of general strategy and methodology on sea defences, illustrated in the following chapters by technical information on specific items and Dutch experience, and it ends with more general aspects such as probabilistic approach, integral (multifunctional) design, management & safety assessment. Together, these chapters provide an almost complete technical overview of the items needed for the design and maintenance of dikes and revetments. The enclosed CRESS-program allows for an initial estimation of hydraulic loads and preliminary design.
Download or read book Levees and the National Flood Insurance Program written by Committee on Levees and the National Flood Insurance Program Improving Policies and Practices and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) manages the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which is a cornerstone in the U.S. strategy to assist communities to prepare for, mitigate against, and recover from flood disasters. The NFIP was established by Congress with passage of the National Flood Insurance Act in 1968, to help reduce future flood damages through NFIP community floodplain regulation that would control development in flood hazard areas, provide insurance for a premium to property owners, and reduce federal expenditures for disaster assistance. The flood insurance is available only to owners of insurable property located in communities that participate in the NFIP. Currently, the program has 5,555,915 million policies in 21,881 communities3 across the United States. The NFIP defines the one percent annual chance flood (100-year or base flood) floodplain as a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA). The SFHA is delineated on FEMA's Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM's) using topographic, meteorologic, hydrologic, and hydraulic information. Property owners with a federally back mortgage within the SFHAs are required to purchase and retain flood insurance, called the mandatory flood insurance purchase requirement (MPR). Levees and floodwalls, hereafter referred to as levees, have been part of flood management in the United States since the late 1700's because they are relatively easy to build and a reasonable infrastructure investment. A levee is a man-made structure, usually an earthen embankment, designed and constructed in accordance with sound engineering practices to contain, control, or divert the flow of water so as to provide protection from temporary flooding. A levee system is a flood protection system which consists of a levee, or levees, and associated structures, such as closure and drainage devices, which are constructed and operated in accordance with sound engineering practices. Recognizing the need for improving the NFIP's treatment of levees, FEMA officials approached the National Research Council's (NRC) Water Science and Technology Board (WSTB) and requested this study. The NRC responded by forming the ad hoc Committee on Levee and the National Flood Insurance Program: Improving Policies and Practices, charged to examine current FEMA treatment of levees within the NFIP and provide advice on how those levee-elated policies and activities could be improved. The study addressed four broad areas, risk analysis, flood insurance, risk reduction, and risk communication, regarding how levees are considered in the NFIP. Specific issues within these areas include current risk analysis and mapping procedures behind accredited and non-accredited levees, flood insurance pricing and the mandatory flood insurance purchase requirement, mitigation options to reduce risk for communities with levees, flood risk communication efforts, and the concept of shared responsibility. The principal conclusions and recommendations are highlighted in this report.
Download or read book Dike Design and Construction Guide written by Golder Associates and published by [Surrey, B.C.?] : Flood Hazard Management Section. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Midwest Flood written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Model Study of Effects of Dikes on the River Bed at Walkers Bar Ohio River written by Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Design and Construction of Retaining Dikes for Containment of Dredged Material written by David P. Hammer and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Design and Construction of Levees written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dutch Dikes written by Eric-Jan Pleijster and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book River Mechanics written by Pierre Y. Julien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely updated and with three new chapters, this analysis of river dynamics is invaluable for advanced students, researchers and practitioners.
