Flood Warning Systems Implementation within Huntington District, Corps of Engineers
Publication: Watershed Management and Operations Management 2000
Abstract
The Huntington District, Corps of Engineers has responsibility for operating a variety of flood control projects in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia. Recently, the Corps has recognized the need to provide flood-warning systems as independent systems or as components of flood control projects. The Huntington District has completed two systems and is currently involved with the implementation of two additional flood-warning systems within the District. These systems are located at Columbus, Ohio for the West Columbus Local Protection Project (LPP), Greenbrier River Basin located in West Virginia, Tug Fork River Basin located in West Virginia and Kentucky and Levisa Fork River Basin located in Kentucky and Virginia. The data acquisition requirements and the current status of these flood warning systems emphasizing the coordination involved in their implementation and design will be presented. All of these systems utilize existing data sources to the extent practicable and provide supplemental precipitation or stage data at key locations to the local communities. Most of these systems are intended to provide direct sources of flood warning data / information to local communities within the basins where structural flood control measures are not practical.
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Watershed Management and Operations Management 2000
Pages: 1 - 10
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© 2000 American Society of Civil Engineering.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Basins
- Bodies of water (by type)
- Construction engineering
- Construction management
- Disaster preparedness
- Disaster risk management
- Disaster warning systems
- Emergency management
- Engineering fundamentals
- Floods
- Hydrologic data
- Hydrologic engineering
- Hydrology
- Information management
- Project management
- River engineering
- Rivers and streams
- Water and water resources
- Water management
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