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Flood protection – decreases risk of bankfull
capacity being exceeded
• Flood abatement – reduces stormflow and reduces peak
discharge levels
• Behavioural responses – societies adopt different
coping strategies
• Most activity tends to increase flood risk, by reducing
the interception store and thus increasing the amount
of surface run-off:
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7. HUMAN RESPONSE TO FLOODING:
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Deforestation
Urbanisation
Cultivation
Whereas afforestation reduces the flood risk by
encouraging infiltration.
8. HUMAN RESPONSE TO FLOODING:
Spreading grounds:
• Diverting flood water to low impact flood plain zones,
for storage
• Reduces downstream peak flows
• Low impact zones can be recreational land use
• Flood water will evaporate or eventually infiltrate,
replenishing groundwater supplies
• E.g. Los Angeles basin
9. HUMAN RESPONSE TO FLOODING:
Debris dams:
• To trap sediment in upper catchments to prevent
downstream bed aggradation
• Maintains higher bankfull capacities downstream
• Periodic need for emptying, but can be used for
construction materials
• Especially important in semi-arid, mountainous
catchments
• E.g. Los Angeles Basin
10. HUMAN RESPONSE TO FLOODING:
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Dam construction:
Multi-purpose, but key tool for flood protection
Controlled release of water stored in reservoir through
sluice gates can spread discharge over a longer period
(reducing peak flows)
Effectiveness depends on relative scale of reservoir’s
catchment area to that of the whole drainage basin
Geo-politics can cause problems –
e.g. India and Bangladesh (Ganges), Spain and Portugal
(Tagus), Zimbabwe and Mozambique (Limpopo
11. TYPES OF FLOOD CONTROL STRUCTURES
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Check dams
Retaining walls
Bunding
Sausage groynes
Gabion/mattress groynes
Paved drains
Reservoirs
12. CHECK DAMS
o These are small gravity dams, usually constructed with
rocks and mortar or concrete, of variable height and
width.
o This type of structures are located in small or mediumsized gullies to stabilize riverbed slopes and prevent
soil erosion.
o Check dams, protect gullies from being eroded by
rainfall and runoff impact.
13. RETAINING WALLS
o These are rock/concrete block structures built on steep
slopes anywhere in the watershed, where the erosion of
the base foundation threatens lands and/or homes.
14. BUNDING
o Bunding is the general name used in Jamaica for
flexible structures of variable thickness and length,
composed of galvanized wire mesh, stone, wild-cane
and riverbed materials.
o Bunding is used to prevent bank erosion and landslips
and to protect agricultural lands from being flooded.
15. SAUSAGE GROYNES
o These are long, cylindrical, slightly flexible structures
of variable thickness, composed of wire and rocks.
o Groynes are placed at the foot of banks along small,
slow-moving streams, where there are signs of
undermining and threats to permanent structures.
o Sausage groynes are designed to stop such action by
allowing the bank to collapse to an angle of repose in
such a manner as to form a moderate slope, which
encourages the growth of vegetation.
16. GABION/MATTRESS GROYNES
o These are long, flexible structures of variable thickness,
composed of wire and rocks.
o They are placed on the shaped banks of large, fastmoving streams where severe erosion is occurring and
many pose a danger to permanent structures.
o Mattress groynes are designed to prevent the further
erosion of the riverbank. They trap soil particles to
allow a build-up of soil; thereby encouraging the
growth of vegetation.
17. PAVED DRAINS
o These are U-Shaped concrete structures designed to
quickly remove water from highly susceptible erodible
areas such as road-sides, under-bridges and steep
slopes.
• Levees:
These serve the purposed of confining flood waters to
the stream and to portions of the flood plain.
18. PAVED DRAINS
o Levees are made of clay or earth fill material are being
used with some structural modifications and have
proven quite effective. The slopes of an earth fill levee
should be no more than 2:1. The base should be wide
to allow for a gradual slope. Trees and bushes should
not be planted on or near a levee because their root
systems tend to weaken it.
19. PAVED DRAINS
• Flood Walls of reinforced concrete:
Flood walls require very little space and are often used
to protect cities and developed areas. They are costly to
construct, but involve minimal maintenance costs.
• Channel Alterations:
Reduce floods by deepening and widening the channel
by cutting meanders. Sometimes these works can have
undesirable effects, by aiding the sediment transport
process. Care must be taken when channel alternatives
are considered.
20. PAVED DRAINS
• Detention Ponds:
Ponds placed on and off-side, can minimize the damage
to downstream structures by reducing peak flows. They
should be considered in the design of downstream
protective structures.
• Dams:
These structures can be used to control flood peaks,
provided suitable impounding sites can be found. Dams
are designed for return periods usually exceeding 25
years. Their cost, however, is usually high and their
design and construction require careful planning.
21. RESERVOIRS
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Reservoirs are one of the most direct methods of flood control through
storing surface runoff; thus, attenuating flood waves and storing flood
water to be redistributed without exceeding downstream flood conditions.
Urban location – small detention ponds.
Regional location – large reservoirs, often constructed to meet
multiple needs (e.g., downstream flood control, hydropower, water supply,
and recreation).
For flood control, it is ideal to maintain the reservoir at the
lowest level possible for storage. On the other hand, keeping the
reservoir at a high level provides the ability to maintain low
flows and hydropower production in droughts
Flood control storage is often variable depending on season and
hydrologic conditions. In regions with predictable rainy or dry
seasons, reservoir levels can be maintained accordingly
22. RESERVOIRS
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attenuation properties of
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correctly. The following case
study demonstrates the impact
when reservoirs lack
23. Floodway's
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As defined in River Mechanics, floodway's are dedicated pathways to
divert floodwaters into a topographical depression near the river or into
another large body of water.
Entrance is controlled by hydraulic structures near
the floodplain to capture overbank floodwaters.
Sedimentation and scour must be considered in floodway operation and
design given the high sediment concentration often found in
floodwaters.
It is important to periodically operate these facilities
to ensure proper operation during a flood event.
24. Floodway's
Yuen Long Bypass Floodway, Hong Kong
Note:
Floodway's may also be
defined as the channel and
overbank areas of a river that
must remain open to carry
floodwaters.
These areas must accommodate flood
Red River Floodway
26. Flood destruction in Pakistan
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Flood have caused massive damage to infrastructure and crops in Pakistan,
besides loss of life.
Monetary losses during the major floods since 1950 aggregate billion
Dollars.
Major floods during the years 1955, 1973, 1976, 1988, 1992, 2010 & 2011 resulted
in inundation of millions of acres of land in various parts of Pakistan, which
constituted one of the most serious environmental hazards.
Over 10,668 people lost their lives during these floods.
27. Flood control structure in Pakistan
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The complete prevention of floods is almost a physical impossibility.
In order to safeguard the Indus Valley and other flood prone areas from
inundation, 5,822 Km (3,600 miles) of embankments have been constructed along
major rivers and their tributaries in Pakistan.
The protect embankment, to channelize flows through barrages and bridges, and
to save lands and areas from erosion, 577 spurs have so far been constructed.
28. Conclusions
Flood controls are not meant to prevent a flood of any
size. Their design is meant to attenuate floodwaters and
flood waves of a certain return period based on a cost risk
analysis (oftentimes 100‐yr events).
• An increase in channel conveyance provides flood control by
allowing flood waves to pass more freely downstream.
• Levees create a physical barrier to contain floodwaters and
protect the floodplain from being flooded.
• Reservoirs attenuate flood waves through providing
floodwater storage.
• Floodway's provide flood wave attenuation through diversion
away from the river.
29. Conclusions
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With the increasing trend in fatalities and damage costs from floods, it
becomes more important to appropriately manage the aging flood control
infrastructure and even consider implementing new controls in some
areas.
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With rising construction cost and governmental budget constraints,
identifying critical infrastructure to receive limited funding is an
increasingly difficult task for water resource management.
30. References
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Julien, P. Y. (2002). River Mechanics, Cambridge University Press, UK.
Roberson, J.A., Cassidy, J.J., Chaudhry, M.H. (1998). Hydraulic
Engineering, 2nd Edition,
Wiley Press, USA.
US Army Corps of Engineers. (2010). After Action Report: May 2010
Flood Event