Flood damage reduction techniques for wastewater treatment facilities

Wastewater treatment facilities, due to design practices and 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. The Commonwealth of Virginia Sewerage Regulations contain the fundamental principle of avoiding construction within the 100-year flood plain. However, information is not included to discuss flood damage reduction measures or flood protective design standards. The Division of Water Programs within the Virginia Department of Health currently has an internal memorandum to govern their response to flood damaged facilities. The memorandum is general in nature with a limited discussion of assistance to wastewater treatment facilities. Specific flood damage reduction training is currently unavailable within the Virginia Department of Health. This research is intended to provide the necessary material to a) update current regulations and b) establish the basis of a training manual for use during presentations, seminars, and daily activity of regulatory engineers.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Environmental Engineering

Department dc:contributor.department

Environmental Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Year dc:date.issued

1987

Author dc:creator

• Aulbach, John Joseph

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/91078

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/91078