Evaluation of levee setbacks for flood-loss reduction, Middle Mississippi River, USA

Dierauer, Jennifer R.; Pinter, Nicholas; Remo, Jonathan W.F.

doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.05.044

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“…Levees are often politically easier to build than implementing nonstructural alternatives, which may be more cost-effective and ecologically beneficial (Tullos 2018) Given the existing development they protect, some levees are critical infrastructure. Opportunities to set back or remove portions of a levee system can both restore floodplain habitat and reduce flood hazards for other critical areas (Florsheim and Mount 2002;Dierauer et al 2012). When a new levee is proposed, assessments should consider historical channel migration patterns (Larsen et al 2006) Streambank protection may be warranted where natural channel migration threatens infrastructure or bank erosion presents a water quality and habitat impairment concern Traditional streambank stabilization incorporates hard engineering approaches such as riprap blankets and may be necessary to protect certain infrastructure or land uses.…”

Section: Riverine Infrastructure Management Challenges Management Solmentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing Infrastructure in the Stream Environment

Sholtes

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Randle

et al. 2018

J American Water Resour Assoc

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Riverine infrastructure provides essential services for the operation and development of the world's nations and their economies. When much of this infrastructure was built in the United States, fluvial processes and stream ecology were not well understood, putting it in conflict with and at risk from the stream environment. High maintenance costs are often required to keep such infrastructure viable and some of it has led to the degradation of aquatic and riparian ecosystems. This commentary paper lays the foundation for infrastructure designers and managers to build and manage infrastructure in a manner both resilient to riverine hazards and more compatible with aquatic and riparian ecosystem needs. We introduce fundamental fluvial geomorphic and ecosystem concepts and provide a decision‐making framework to replace or repair existing infrastructure or build new infrastructure. Common management challenges associated with 11 riverine infrastructure types are discussed and we provide suggestions on how each infrastructure type can be better built and managed within stream corridors. We close with a discussion on managing infrastructure under future hydrologic uncertainty and in response to natural disasters.

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Section: Riverine Infrastructure Management Challenges Management Solmentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing Infrastructure in the Stream Environment

Sholtes

Ubing

Randle

et al. 2018

J American Water Resour Assoc

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“…Some examples, among others of this type, may be found in the literature: large floods that affected the US Midwest along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their tributaries in 1993 and 1995, caused by levee failure [10,11,32]; the disastrous flooding of New Orleans provoked by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, also associated with a levee failure; and two important events that occurred in 1993 and 1995 [35], in The Netherlands, a low-lying country with approximately 20% of its area below sea level [36] where large polders have been constructed to protect the country against floods [32,37]. These two last cited events are usually considered as alarms that later triggered the "Room for the River" approach, which changed Dutch flood risk management strategies.…”

Section: Lowlands Levee Systems and River Restoration As An Alternativementioning

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Urban Floods in Lowlands—Levee Systems, Unplanned Urban Growth and River Restoration Alternative: A Case Study in Brazil

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Abstract:The development of cities has always had a very close relation with water. However, cities directly impact land use patterns and greatly change natural landscapes, aggravating floods. Considering this situation, this paper intends to discuss lowland occupation and city sustainability in what regards urban stormwater management, fluvial space, and river restoration, aiming at minimizing flood risks and improving natural and built environment conditions. River plains tend to be attractive places for a city to grow. From ancient times, levees have been used to protect lowland areas along major watercourses to allow their occupation. However, urban rivers demand space for temporary flood storage. From a systemic point of view, levees along extensive river reaches act as canalization works, limiting river connectivity with flood plains, rising water levels, increasing overtopping risks and transferring floods downstream. Departing from this discussion, four case studies in the Iguaçu-Sarapuí River Basin, a lowland area of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, are used to compose a perspective in which the central point refers to the need of respecting watershed limits and giving space to rivers. Different aspects of low-lying city planning are discussed and analyzed concerning the integration of the built and natural environments. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 11069

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“…In addition, the process of urbanization makes the artificial feature of the river landscape more apparent [56], and linearization, sump and concrete of channel lower the functions of river regulation and storage [57]. In addition, the impact of land use changing [58], flood storage area [59], agricultural land management [60], dikes [61], the change of river regulation and storage capacity [62], polder management and the change of outer river surface rate [63] and other human activities on flood disaster has drawn everyone's attention.…”

Section: Disaster Riskmentioning

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Research on Flood Risk Assessment Model at Regional Scale

Chen

Wang

2013

2013 Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Engineering Applications

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Global climate changes and human activities have a profound impact on disaster environment and formation mechanism of waterlogging disaster, exacerbating the uncertainty of waterlogging disaster and highlighting complexity and difficulty coping with the water disasters of farmland. A large number of researches on risk assessment and prediction of flood disaster have been carried out at home and abroad, and this study concluded the research progress of this direction in recent years in terms of six aspects including the connotation of disaster risk, comprehensive assessment of flood risk based on index system, the numerical models of flood disaster risk assessment, the regularity analysis of different carriers, the influence of environment changes on flood disaster risk and uncertainty of flood disaster and finally analyzed problems in the research and the future directions of development.

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Evaluation of levee setbacks for flood-loss reduction, Middle Mississippi River, USA

Cited by 52 publications

References 10 publications

Managing Infrastructure in the Stream Environment

Managing Infrastructure in the Stream Environment

Urban Floods in Lowlands—Levee Systems, Unplanned Urban Growth and River Restoration Alternative: A Case Study in Brazil

Research on Flood Risk Assessment Model at Regional Scale

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