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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"flood damage"”.
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Probabilistic evaluation of flood damage in buildings
… become increasingly destructive in terms of damage and economic loss, the built environment has become very vulnerable to floods. Every city is building a resilient plan to decrease its vulnerability. However, the studies are often reduced to case studies and if engineers manage to build …
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Flood damage reduction techniques for wastewater treatment facilities
… physical location, may be highly vulnerable to flooding. The implementation of flood proofing and flood damage reduction measures can reduce the economic losses and environmental impacts of a flood. Effective training and guidance is currently unavailable from the Virginia regulatory agencies. …
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Rapid flood damage prediction in short lead-time scenarios
Research on short lead-time flood inundation and damage assessment traditionally focuses on developing tools for long term planning. Studies that investigate the ability to provide short lead-time analyses are uncommon because of sparcity and spatial inconsistency of short-term hydrologic …
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Estimate Flood Damage Using Satellite Images and Twitter Data
… 43 people across four states. Hurricane Ida's damage could top $95 billion, and many meteorologists predict that climate change is making storms wetter and wider. Thus, there is an urgent need to predict how much damage the flood will cause and prepare for possible destruction. Most current …
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Development of HEC-HMS and HEC-RAS models for urban floodplain mapping and flood damage reduction in Brownsville, Texas
… develop hydrologic and hydraulic models for the floodplain analysis for Brownsville, Texas and analyze mitigation alternatives within a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and digital data framework. This framework allowed for flexible manipulation of data and easy interpretation of the results. …
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Assessing natural risks for railway infrastructure and transportation in Austria
… due to natural hazards are attributable to floods. The majority of natural hazards are triggered by weather-related extremes such as heavy precipitation, rapid snow melt, or extreme temperatures. Some of them, and in particular floods, are expected to further increase in terms of frequency …
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Homeowner satisfaction and service quality in the repair of UK flood-damaged domestic property
Flooding is a global challenge that has plagued mankind throughout history, affecting over 164 million people worldwide in 2007 alone. As the frequency of flooding increases in England and Wales coupled with an increase in the number of properties at risk of flooding and the attendant huge …
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Coastal floods in view of sea level rise
… level rise induced intensification of coastal floods is a serious threat to many regions in proximity to the ocean. Although severe flood events are rare they can entail enormous damage costs, especially when built-up areas are inundated. Fortunately, the mean sea level advances slowly and …
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Climate Change Adaptation Planning and Decision Making for Transit Infrastructure
… in the frequency and intensity of coastal flooding pose a significant threat to coastal communities and the critical infrastructure upon which they rely. In coastal cities, rail transit systems are particularly sensitive to such increases in coastal flood exposure. Transit agencies, …
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Predicting Flood Risks to City Infrastructure Systems Utilizing Scalable, Time Sensitive Modeling
Flooding is emerging as the most expensive and frequent natural hazard around the world. Floods are highly dynamic in nature and cause physical damage to our built environment, loss of life, economic damage, and major impacts to society. An example of this is the at-ground road system, which …
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Development of a decision support system for flood forecasting and warning – a case study on the Maribyrnong River
Floods are one of the most costly types of natural disasters in Australia and other parts of the world. It was reported that the average annual cost of flood damage in Australia was about $300 million as at 1994. However, the effects of flooding can be mitigated, and thereby reduce the loss of life …
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Development of a SWMM-GIS Flood Model for New Orleans Drainage Pumping Station No 4 Basin
An urban flood damage model for the drainage area serve by Pump Station No. 4 (Prentiss, New Orleans, Louisiana) has been completed. This study presents the research effort needed to develop a stormwater management model (SWMM) integrated with GIS that includes a Damage Model to estimate the losses …
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Artificial Neural Network-Based Flood Forecasting: Input Variable Selection and Peak Flow Prediction Accuracy
Floods are the most frequent and costly natural disaster in Canada. Flow forecasting models can be used to provide an advance warning of flood risk and mitigate flood damage. Data-driven models have proven to be suitable for flow forecasting applications, yet there are several outstanding …
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Disasters And Disorganization: The Flood Of 2022 In Eastern Kentucky And The Struggles That Linger
In July of 2022, a generational flood washed out many small communities across 13 Kentucky counties in Central Appalachia. This disaster, like previous disasters, uncovered structural and socioeconomic issues perpetuated by those in power that were hidden from the outside world. Minimal news …
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After retreat : buyout programs and local planning goals after Hurricane Sandy
… increasingly popular as a means to mitigate flood damage to homes within floodplains. However, there are many local benefits associated with buyout programs, including the removal of services from the neighborhood, increased flood protection for adjacent neighborhoods, and increased green …
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Vegetative Community and Health Assessment of a Constructed Juncus-Dominated Salt Marsh in The Northern Gulf Of Mexico
… habitat which provides a buffer from storm and flood damage as well as shore-line stabilization to the mainland of Biloxi, Mississippi. A third of the land has been lost since 1850, largely driven by tropical storm and hurricane impacts as well as sea level rise. The United States Army Corps of …
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Computer-based decision-support methods for hydrological ecosystem services management
… benefits derived from freshwater that include flood damage mitigation, water for agricultural and commercial use, swimmable and navigable waters, and healthy aquatic habitats. Using computer algorithms inspired by biological and ecological processes known as evolutionary algorithms and on-site …
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Storm smart planning for adaptation to sea level rise : addressing coastal flood risk in East Boston
… precarious position, increasingly vulnerable to flood damage brought by storm surges and extreme weather events. In order to avoid disastrous losses of property, life, ecological health and social wellbeing, our cities and regions must quickly implement adaptation plans that consider plausible …
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Effects of weather-related disasters on U.S. highway, street and bridge construction sector labor markets
… both in frequency and economic losses. Disaster damages to U.S. transportation infrastructure systems cause hundreds of millions in direct and indirect economic losses annually. Hundreds of miles of highways, streets and bridges are damaged every year due to severe storm events and are …
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Model Development and Incorporation of GIS Tools for Floodplain Management
Floodplain management consists of efforts to reduce flood damage to critical infrastructure and to protect the life and health of individuals from flooding. A major component of this effort is the monitoring of flood control structures such as dams because the potential failure of these structures …
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