Information is provided about the approach and experience in flood management in the Damodar river basin of India. This is achieved through a scheme for the integrated operation of a number of reservoirs on that river and on its tributaries for the purpose of irrigation, hydropower generation and flood protection. Of particular interest is the recent change in policy towards a multi-disciplinar...

Economical integration of permanent and emergency flood control options is a long-standing problem in water resources planning and management. A two-stage linear programming formulation of this problem is proposed and demonstrated which provides an explicit economic basis for developing integrated floodplain management plans. The approach minimizes the expected value of flood damages and costs,...

The effects of multiple experimental floods in the same year on the ecology of a river (River Spöl) below a large reservoir were investigated. In the flood year (2000), three floods of different magnitude (10 m/s on 15 June, 25 m/s on 5 July, and 10 m/s on 10 August) were implemented, each lasting 7–8 h. Regulated baseflow discharge was maintained at less than 2.5 m/s. Samples of macroinvertebr...

To design hydraulic structures, predicting the discharge of flood is necessary, the main cause lies in failure that may occur in downstream. Most hydraulic structures were destructed because of the lack of resistance against floods with flow rate more than design flood, so selecting design flood is one of important decisions should be made as an effective factor accompany with other hydrologic ...

A novel multi-objective simulation-optimization (S-O) framework for flood mitigation in a river-reservoir system with multiple reservoirs and control points is proposed. Different combinations of objectives regarding flood mitigation in one or more of the reservoirs and/or one or more of the control points can be specified within the framework, namely, (1) maximizing the flood releases from the...

Development of rural areas in rivers margins and flood plains, without understanding and attention to the dynamical and hydrological conditions and upstream areas of the rivers will cause to increase flood risk and loss of life and financial. Flood zoning has many applications, in floodplain management. For management of the three major branches of the Halilrood River, Rabor, Roodar and Javaran...

Flood phenomenon is one of the catastrophic natural disasters which usually cause injuries and economic losses more than any weather phenomenon. Therefore evaluating flood economic losses is extremely important and it should be consider in socioeconomic development, spatial planning policies and flood control plans. Contrary to importance of this issue, available evaluating methods of flood eco...

Flood hazard maps were developed using remote sensing (RS) data for the historical event of the 1988 flood with data of elevation height, and geological and physiographic divisions. Flood damage depends on the hydraulic factors which include characteristics of the flood such as the depth of flooding, rate of the rise in water level, propagation of a flood wave, duration and frequency of floodin...

UNLABELLED Flooding is the most common and damaging of all natural disasters in the United States, and was a factor in almost all declared disasters in U.S. HISTORY Direct flood losses in the U.S. in 2011 totaled $8.41 billion and flood damage has also been on the rise globally over the past century. The National Flood Insurance Program paid out more than $38 billion in claims since its incep...

The flood governance of Huaihe River has a long history. Especially after the establishment of New China, the state has invested huge funds in water conservancy projects, but the problem of Huaihe River flood has not been fundamentally solved. On the basis of previous studies, the reasons for the Huaihe River flood, among which the root causes of the Huaihe River floods are the poor access of t...