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Jun 20, 2012
U.S. Levee and Flood Protection Engineering in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
Authors: Raymond B. Seed [email protected], Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos [email protected], Diego Cobos-Roa [email protected], Juan M. Pestana [email protected], and Mike Inamine [email protected]Author Affiliations
Publication: Geotechnical Engineering State of the Art and Practice: Keynote Lectures from GeoCongress 2012
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After more than half a century of increasing neglect, the nation's flood defenses are currently rated by the ASCE as having the very lowest levels of adequacy and reliability among all types of critical U.S. infrastructure, receiving a letter grade of straight "F" on the ASCE's Annual Infrastructure Report Card for the nation. Accordingly, the U.S. now finds itself at a crossroads in the wake of the recent catastrophic flooding of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, and the spate of other significant flood events of recent years. There is much to be learned from these recent events, and that learning opportunity has been seized upon at both the national and more local (State and regional) levels; and some promising changes have been initiated. This paper discusses key lessons learned from the Hurricane Katrina experience, and other recent flood disasters, and then presents a discussion of ongoing efforts to implement these lessons in effecting positive changes and improvements in U.S. flood protection practice.
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Prof. of Civil Engin., University of California at Berkeley, CA.E-mail: [email protected]
Asst. Prof. of Civil Engin., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, MI.E-mail: [email protected]
Graduate student, Researcher, Univ.of California at Berkeley, CA.E-mail: [email protected]
Prof. of Civil Engin., University of California at Berkeley, CA.E-mail: [email protected]
Dir. of Engineering, Sutter Butte Flood Control Agency, CA.E-mail: [email protected]
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