Floods and reservoir safety / Institituion of Civil Engineers.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reservoirs--Safety measures--Standards--Great Britain.

Reservoirs--Law and legislation--Great Britain.

Flood control--Great Britain.

Flood control--Law and legislation--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (80 pages)

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

London : ICE Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

This fourth edition of 'Floods and Reservoir Safety' provides authoritative guidance on flood protection standards, flood magnitude and freeboard-guidance which is essential for engineers who are responsible for the design and inspection of reservoirs.

Contents:

Intro

T303-01.pdf

Background

Changes

Scope of the guide

References

EA (Environment Agency) (2013)

HSE (Health and Safety Executive) (2001)

IH (Institute of Hydrology) (1999)

T303-02.pdf

General

The main factors

Standards-based approach

Initial reservoir level

Reservoir flood inflow

Table 2.1

Concurrent wind speed

Dam categories

Category A dams

Category B dams

Category C dams

Category D dams

Recommended standards

Risk-based approach

Other criteria

Dam break wave

Economic considerations

Spillway systems

Reservoir cascades

Table 2.2

Failure to meet recommended standards

Figure 2.1

Other aspects

Gated spillways

Minimum spillway capacity

Reservoirs without direct catchments

Grass-covered embankments

Fill dams in deep valleys

Flood attenuation embankments

Discharge alterations

Rapid assessment of existing dams

Population at risk (PAR) and the likely loss of life (LLOL)

Incremental damage

Other structures

Warning times

Legislative categorisation of reservoirs

RARS - acceptance of different levels of risk

Aboelata MA and Bowles DS (2005)

DEFRA/EA (Environment Agency) (2003)

DEFRA/EA (2006)

Graham WJ (1999)

ICOLD (International Commission on Large Dams) (1992)

Jonkman SN and Vrijling JK (2008)

Jöbstl et al. (2011)

Kirkpatrick GW (1977)

NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) (1975)

T303-03.pdf

Objective

Flood Studies Report and Flood Estimation Handbook

Revitalised flood hydrograph rainfall-runoff method

Clarification of appropriate models and design rainfall inputs

Summary of the FSR/FEH rainfall-runoff method for the T

year event.

Summary of the methodology for estimating the PMF event

Summary of rainfall™DDF and rainfall-runoff model

Use of local data

The contribution of extreme snowmelt

Table 3.1

Figure 3.1

Climate change

Rapid method of assessment based on FSR procedures

Table 3.2

Software

Archer DR (1981)

Archer DR (1983)

Archer DR (1984)

EA (2013)

Hough MN and Hollis D (2006)

Kjeldsen TR, Stewart EJ and Packman JC, Folwell SS and Baylis AC (2005)

LWEC (Living With Environmental Change) (2013)

MacDonald D E and Scott CW (2001)

Reed DW and Field EK (1992)

Stewart EJ, Jones DA, Svensson C et al. (2013)

T303-04.pdf

Recommended stages in routing calculation

Figure 4.1

Siphon spillways, automatic toppling weirs and fuse plugs

Auxiliary spillways

Temporary upstream storage

Colombi JS and Hall MJ (1977)

US Army Corps of Engineers (2005)

T303-05.pdf

Scope

Water surface and fetches

Wind speed, duration and direction

Return period adjustment

Altitude adjustment

Over-water adjustment

Duration adjustment

Direction adjustment

Figure 5.1

Table 5.1

Figure 5.2

Required wind speed

Wave height and period prediction

Table 5.2

Table 5.3

Example calculation

Figure 5.3

Figure 5.4

Wave overtopping

Vertical and steep walls (including large wave walls on submerged slopes)

Table 5.4

Embankment slopes (including small wave wall at top of slope)

Table 5.5

BSI (British Standards Institution) (2005)

Herbert DM, Lovenbury HTL, Allsop NWH and Reader RA (1995).

Pullen T, Allsop NWH, Bruce T, Kortenhaus A, Schuttrümpf H and van der Meer JW (2007)

T303-06.pdf

Introduction

Classification

Physical factors affecting erodibility

Overflowing: assessment

Figure 6.1

Table 6.1

Overflowing: remedial measures

Figure 6.2

Figure 6.3

Overtopping: assessment

Table 6.2

Overtopping: remedial measures

CIRIA (Construction Industry Research and Information Association), Centre for Civil Engineering Research and Codes and Centre d'Etudes Techniques Maritimes et Fluviales (2007)

Davison M, Hassan M, Gimeno O, Van Damme M and Goff C (2013)

D'Eliso C (2007)

Herbert DM, Lovenbury HTL, Allsop NWH and Reader RA (1995)

Table 6.3

Hewlett HWM, Boorman LA and Bramley ME (1987)

Mohamed MAA, Samuels PG, Morris MW and Ghataora GS (2002)

Morris MW, Hassan M, Kortenhaus A, Geisenhainer G, Visser PJ and Zhu Y (2008)

Pullen T, Allsop NWH, Bruce T, Kortenhaus A, Schuttrümpf H and van der Meer JW (2007)

Van Damme M, Morris MW, Borthwick AGL and Hassan MAAM (2012)

Van der Meer JW (2008a)

Van der Meer JW (2008b)

Van der Meer JW, Schrijver R, Hardeman B et al. (2009)

Yarde AJ, Banyard LS and Allsop NWH (1996)

T303-07.pdf

Flood risks during new dam construction

Diversion structures

Flood risks during improvement and/or dam removal works

Health and safety requirements

T303-08.pdf

Purpose

Procedure

CEH (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) (2009)

Table 8.1

Table 8.2

Table 8.3

Table 8.4

Table 8.6

T303-09.pdf

FEH rainfall DDF model

FEH13 rainfall DDF model

ReFH method.

Advice on detailed aspects of the FSR/-FEH rainfall-runoff method

Catchment representation

Design storm

Seasonal variation of the™PMP

Areal precipitation

Storm profile for large catchments

Reservoirs in cascade

Table 9.1

Table 9.2

Table 9.3

Catchment descriptors

Local data

Local rainfall analyses

Local unit hydrograph data

Local percentage runoff data

Other factors

Snowmelt

Antecedent flow

Frozen ground

Computation time steps

Linking the flood frequency curve to the PMF estimate

Boorman DB, Hollis JM and Lilly A (1995)

Davison I (2005)

Faulkner DS (1999)

Faulkner DS and Barber S (2009)

Kjeldsen TR (2007)

Lowing MJ and Law FM (1995)

Rowbottom IA, Pilgrim DH and Wright GL (1986)

T303-10.pdf

Embankment dam

Figure 10.1

Concrete/masonry dam

Figure 10.2

T303-11.pdf

Figure 11.1

T303-12.pdf

Acreman MC (1989)

ANCOLD (Australian National Committee On Large Dams) (1986)

ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) (1974)

Binnie and Partners (1989)

Bossman-Aggrey P, Green CH and Parker DJ (1987)

Cantwell B and Murley K (1986)

Charles JA and Boden JB (1985)

Charles JA and Tedd P (1996)

Charles JA, Tedd P and Warren A (2011)

Clarke CL and Phillips JW (1984)

Cluckie ID and Pessoa ML (1990)

Cooper GA (1987)

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (2005)

Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (2000)

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) (2004)

Fowler H (2003)

Health and Safety Executive (2007)

ICOLD (International Commission on Large Dams) (1977).

ICOLD (2012)

Oosthuizen C and Elges HFWK (1987)

Safety and Reliability Directorate (1985)

Wellington NB (1988)

Hydrological

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2009)

IH (Institute of Hydrology) (1983)

IH (1983)

IH (1985)

IH (1999)

Winter C, Mason P and Stewart E (2012)

Storm rainfall

Bootman AP and Willis (1981)

Dales NY and Reed DW (1989)

Kjeldsen TJ, Prudhomm C, Svensson C and Stewart EJ (2006)

Stewart EJ and Reynard NS (1991)

Stewart EJ, Jones DA, Svensson C and Morris DG (2010)

Stewart EJ, Morris DG, Jones DA and Gibson HS (2012)

Svensson C and Jones DA (2010)

Probable Maximum Flood

Austin BN, Cluckie ID, Collier CG and Hardaker PJ (1995)

Collier CG, Morris DG and Jones DA (2011)

US Committee on Techniques for Estimating the Probability of Extreme Floods (1988)

Ferguson RI (1984)

Folland CK, Kelway PS and Warrilow DA (1981)

Hough MN and Hollis D (1997)

Mawdsley JA, Dixon AK and Adamson AC (1991)

Joint probability studies

Anderson CW and Nadarajahs S (1993)

Anderson CW, Dwyer IJ, Nadarajah S, Reed DW and Tawn JA (1994)

Reed DW and Anderson CW (1992)

Reed DW (1999)

Reed DW, Anderson CW, Tawn JA, Nadarajah S and Dwyer IJ (1999)

Flood routing

Houghton-Carr HA (1999)

Environment Agency (2011).

Kay AL, Crooks SM, Davies HN and Reynard NS (2014).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 9, 2015).

ISBN:

1-5231-0553-4

OCLC:

960760527