The 1972 Black Hills-Rapid City Flood Revisited

Carter, Janet M.; Williamson, J; Teller, Ralph W.

doi:10.3133/fs03702

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“…A second type of post‐flood investigations is conducted more systematically by technical services like the US Geological Survey (Bowers, 2001; Juracek et al , 2001; Carter et al , 2002; Winston and Criss, 2002), the Istituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica in Italy for instance or by research institutions (Hemain and Dourlens, 1989; Gilard and Mesnil, 1995). The aim is then to document the extreme events.…”

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Post‐flood field investigations in upland catchments after major flash floods: proposal of a methodology and illustrations

Gaumé¹,

Borga²

2008

J Flood Risk Management

179

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Post‐event survey and investigation is one way to gain experience on natural hazards. The importance of the systematisation and standardisation of such investigations and re‐analysis is progressively recognised in all the geophysical sciences as shown by the growing number of scientific papers and programs on the subject. But how to proceed in the case of a flash floods, what type of data should be collected for what type of analyses and to explore which particular issues? To give a first answer to these questions, a methodology for post‐flash flood field investigations has been developed under the EC FLOODsite project and tested under the EC HYDRATE project. This paper presents shortly the principles of this methodology and illustrates its application for the study of two major flash floods that occurred in November 1999 and September 2002 in the South of France.

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Post‐flood field investigations in upland catchments after major flash floods: proposal of a methodology and illustrations

Gaumé¹,

Borga²

2008

J Flood Risk Management

179

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“…For the Colorado River, paleoflood records for both the main stem (O’Connor et al, 1994) and the Upper Colorado River (Greenbaum et al, 2014) show that floods more than twice as large as the flood-of-record occurred during the late-Holocene, but because the Glen Canyon Dam was finished in 1966, information about those events could not have been incorporated into its design or construction. The 1972 Rapid City floods killed 238 people and caused more than $160 million USD in direct damages (Carter et al, 2002), but stratigraphic analysis conducted more than four decades later showed that high water level had been exceeded – substantially – at least five times in the past 1900 years (Harden et al, 2011). At the other end of the spectrum, when Denver’s Cherry Creek Dam was completed in 1950, its reservoir was designed to accommodate a flood of 5126 m 3 /s, but a study conducted in the late 1990s demonstrated that the largest paleoflood in the basin had less than half that discharge (Jarret, 2000).…”

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The need for paleoflood investigations on the American reach of the Red River of the North

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Over the past century, the Red River of the North has been the least stationary river in the continental United States. In Canada, historical and paleoenvironmental evidence indicates severe floods were common during the early 1800s, with the record ce 1826 flood having an estimated peak discharge 50% higher than the second-most severe flood ever observed. Unfortunately, the recorded history of flooding upstream in the United States does not begin until seven decades after this event. If 1826 was an equally exceptional flood on American reach of the river, then current flood-frequency curves for the river underestimate significantly the risks posed by future flooding. Alternatively, if the American stretch did not produce a major flood in 1826, then the recent spate of flooding that has occurred over the past two decades is exceptional within the context of the past 200 years. Communities in the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area are building a 58-km long, $2.75 billion (USD) diversion channel that would redirect floodwaters westward around the two cities before returning it to the main channel. Because this and other infrastructure in North Dakota and Minnesota is intended to provide protection against low-probability, high-magnitude floods, new paleoflood investigations in the region would help local, state, and federal policy-makers better understand the true flood threats posed by the Red River of the North.

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Dynamics of Catchment and Slope Processes

Bren

2023

Forest Hydrology and Catchment Management

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The 1972 Black Hills-Rapid City Flood Revisited

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Post‐flood field investigations in upland catchments after major flash floods: proposal of a methodology and illustrations

Post‐flood field investigations in upland catchments after major flash floods: proposal of a methodology and illustrations

The need for paleoflood investigations on the American reach of the Red River of the North

Dynamics of Catchment and Slope Processes

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