Flood Hydrology

1. Coastal and Urban Flooding

   1. Spatial and Temporal Factors Controlling Overtopping of Coastal Ridges

      • William F. Tanner

      Pages 241-248

   2. Statistical Analysis of Storm Tide Elevations for New England Coastal Communities

      • Y. J. Tsai

      Pages 249-256

   3. Errors Due to Linearization in Tidal Propagation

      • Panagiotis D. Scarlatos, Vijay P. Singh

      Pages 257-269

2. Flood Management

   1. Flood Management in the Netherlands from the Middle Ages to the Space Era

      • Johannes W. van der Made

      Pages 271-280

   2. Optimizing Flood Protection for Cypress Creek, Harris County, Texas

      • Paul C. Wilson Jr., Robert Pudlewski

      Pages 281-287

   3. Effect of Embanking on River and Sea Floods

      • Adriaan Volker

      Pages 289-297

   4. A Model for the Operation of Spillway Gates in Pluvial Floods

      • Luis Arrau

      Pages 299-308

   5. Flood Control with the Use of an Irrigation Storage Reservoir

      • Enrique Kaliski, Luis Arrau

      Pages 309-323

   6. St. Helens Blast Related Sedimentation Modeling and Planning Realities in the Toutle/Cowlitz/Columbia River System

      • William A. Rabiega

      Pages 325-331

   7. Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Proposed Storm Surge Barrier on the River Scheldt (Belgium)

      • J. Berlamont, P. Van Rompuy

      Pages 333-345

3. Flood Control Programs

   1. Flood Plain Management — The NZ Experience

      • Judy H. Lawrence, P. “Takis” Koutsos

      Pages 347-368

   2. A Study for Real Time Operation of Four Flood Reservoirs

      • André van der Beken, Georges Louis Vandewiele, Jan Marien, Ivo Terrens, Guy De Schrijver

      Pages 369-378

   3. A Multi-purpose Flood Control and Irrigation Reservoir on a Tributary of the Adige River (Italy)

      • Paolo Mazzalai, Lorenzo Eccher

      Pages 379-388

   4. A Catastrophic Flood and its Control in August, 1963 on Haihe River Basin of China

      • Hong-Mou Bao, Li-Dan Ke

      Pages 389-398

   5. Centrifuge Modeling of River Bank Failures Due to Seepage Flow

      • Osamu Kusakabe, Yasuhiro Okumura, Akio Nakase

      Pages 399-408

   6. The Brazilian Electric Sector Experience in Flood Control

      • A. M. Vieira, P. R. H. Sales, L. A. L. Barretto

      Pages 409-418

4. Back Matter

   Pages 419-429

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Floods constitute a persistent and serious problem throughout the United States and many other parts of the world. They are responsible for losses amounting to billions of dollars and scores of deaths annually. Virtually all parts of the nation--coastal, moun­ tainous and rural--are affected by them. Two aspects of the problem of flooding that have long been topics of scientific inquiry are flood frequency and risk analyses. Many new, even improved, tech­ niques have recently been developed for performing these analyses. Nevertheless, actual experience points out that the frequency of say a 100-year flood, in lieu of being encountered on the average once in one hundred years, may be as little as once in 25 years. It is therefore appropriate to pause and ask where we are, where we are going and where we ought to be going with regard to the technology of flood frequency and risk analyses. One way to address these ques­ tions is to provide a forum where people from all quarters of the world can assemble, discuss and share their experience and expertise pertaining to flood frequency and risk analyses. This is what con­ stituted the motivation for organizing the International Symposium on Flood Frequency and Risk Analyses held May 14-17, 1986, at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

• China
• Coast
• Northeaster
• Storm
• Storm surge
• Tide
• agriculture
• earthquake prediction
• hydrology
• modeling
• research
• reservoir
• rivers
• sedimentation
• statistical analysis
• hydrogeology

• Department of Civil Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

  Vijay P. Singh

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