Flood risk management and the American river basin : an evaluation / Committee on Flood Control Alternatives in the American River Basin, Water Science and Technology Board, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Flood Control Alternatives in the American River Basin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flood damage prevention--California--Sacramento Region.

Flood damage prevention.

Floodplain management--California--American River Watershed.

Floodplain management.

Risk management.

American River Watershed (Calif.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book reviews the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) investigations of flood control options for the American River basin and evaluates flood control feasibility studies for the watershed, with attention to the contingency assumptions, hydrologic methods, and other analyses supporting the flood control options. This book provides detailed comments on many technical issues, including a careful review of the 1991 National Research Council report "American River Watershed Investigation," and looks beyond the Sacramento case to broader questions about the nation's approach to flood risk management. It discusses how to utilize information available about flood hazard reduction alternatives for the American River basin, the potential benefits provided by various alternatives, the impacts of alternatives on environmental resources and ecosystems, and the trade-offs inherent in any choice among alternatives which does not lie in the realm of scientists and engineers, but in the arena of public decisionmaking.

Contents:

""Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""THE COMMITTEE'S CHARGE""; ""THREE PREMISES""; ""Alleviation of Sacramento's Flood Risk is Critical""; ""National Flood Policies Urge Multiple Adjustments to Hazard""; ""Technical Assessment Includes Policy Judgments""; ""IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVES""; ""ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES""; ""RISK METHODOLOGY""; ""FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT BEHIND LEVEES""; ""WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND DECISION MAKING""; ""FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS""

""THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS""""1 Introduction ""; ""THE AMERICAN RIVER BASIN""; ""Physical Setting""; ""Historical Context of the Flood Control Controversy""; ""The Scale of Decision making and Externalities""; ""Competing Strategies of Flood Response""; ""Intergovernmental Cooperation and Cost Sharing""; ""Scientific Uncertainty""; ""Folsom and Auburn Dams""; ""THE USACE PROJECT PLANNING AND DECISION MAKING PROCESS""; ""2 Identification and Evaluation of Alternatives ""; ""SELECTION OF PROJECT ALTERNATIVES""; ""Flood Control Measures""

""Flood Control Alternative Plans"" ""Criticisms of the 1991 Measures and Alternatives""; ""Issues of Importance in the 1991 and 1994 Alternative Plans""; ""Folsom Reservoir""; ""Folsom Reoperation""; ""Flood Forecasting and Flood Control Effectiveness""; ""Folsom Operation During Flood Events""; ""Recommendations on Folsom Operations""; ""Gated Auburn Dam""; ""Offstream Flood Control Storage on Deer Creek""; ""Nonstructural Measures""; ""FLOOD RISK REDUCTION FROM ALTERNATIVE PLANS""; ""Development of Inflow Design Hydrographs for Unregulated Conditions""

""Estimation of the Probabilities of Unregulated Flood Volumes"" ""Construction of Inflow Design Hydrographs? Unregulated Conditions""; ""Development of Design Hydrographs Below Folsom""; ""Accounting for Effects of Folsom Dam""; ""Accounting for Effects of Auburn Alternatives""; ""Accounting for Downstream Inflows""; ""Hydraulic Modeling""; ""Assumptions About Confluence of American and Sacramento Rivers""; ""Hydraulic Models""; ""Geotechnical Analysis""; ""The 1991 ARWI Analysis""; ""Subsequent Investigations""; ""Recent Work""; ""OTHER TECHNICAL ISSUES: FLOOD RECORD AND GEOMORPHOLOGY""

""American River Flood Record"" ""Geomorphology of the Lower American River""; ""Historical Channel Changes""; ""Mining Sediment""; ""Bank and Lateral Stability""; ""Channel Lowering and Enlargement""; ""Vertical Incision""; ""Channel Enlargement""; ""Channel Changes at Streamflow Gages""; ""Fair Oaks Gage near Old Bridge""; ""Fair Oaks Gage at Hazel Avenue""; ""Geomorphic Conclusion""; ""3 Environmental Issues ""; ""TREATMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN THE ARWI REPORT""; ""Overview of NEPA and CEQA""; ""Environmental Information Deficiencies in the 1991 ARWI""

""Project Alternatives Assessment in the 1991 ARWI""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-230).

ISBN:

9786610192755

9780309176255

0309176255

9781280192753

1280192755

9780309588393

0309588391

9780585027456

0585027455

OCLC:

923263139