detention rockfill dams are accounted as economically efficient structures for flood control, river bed and banks protection, flow diversion, etc. as the hydraulic behavior of these structures, when are used for flood control, is affected by the depth of water in their porous media, there are interests to predict water surface profile through the body of these structures. in this research, we d...

This paper offers a critique of the cordon approach to flood control that Bangladesh has been pursuing for several decades now. It shows how this approach fails to solve the flood problem, deprives the flood plains from benefits of regular river-inundation, creates a risky situation for the inhabitants inside cordons, brings in new problems of drainage and sanitation, and leads to huge waste of...

The 2003 flood of the Muda River reached 1,340 m3 /s at Ladang Victoria and adversely impacted 45,000 people in Malaysia. A flood control remediation plan proposed a levee height based on a 50-year discharge of 1 ,815 m3 /s obtained from hydrologic models. This design discharge falls outside the 95% confidence intervals of the flood frequency analysis based on field measurements. Instream sand ...

Mountain torrent disaster warning system is a significant non-engineering flood prevention measure for achieving the goals of flood prevention and disaster reduction in the related small rivers. After analyzing the design principle and objective of the system, we proposed a mountain torrent disaster warning system based on WEB GIS technology and the distributed hydrological model (DHM) of the r...

Constructing of control structures, like dams, change temporal and spatial unequal distribution of water ,and also play an effective role in reduce or eliminate of damage that caused by floods. So reservoir dam’s effect on floods discharges reduction must be determined. In this study the rain Information and flood hydrographs were used to check the flood routing for previous period of Maroon da...

Chun-Tian Cheng*, K.W.Chau Department of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P.R. China Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong Abstract: Flooding disaster is one of the most damaging natural disasters in China, with annual average losses costing more than 200 billion yuan in recent years. Aft...