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hosookyan
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 Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 5:56 pm Post subject: precedent in flood infrastructure |
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| hi, i am doing my final year thesis in designing flood infrastructure that deals with controlling flood by the river's edge that accomodates living and recreational spaces. Does anyone have suggestion on precedents? |
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Kevin
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| Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 6:26 pm Post subject: Why build in the floodplain? |
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Where I largely grew up in eastern Massachusetts, in the U.S., there were reasonably effective regulations against building in a river floodplain.
Building in a river floodplain is especially expensive both to the monetary economy and to the natural ecology. At least to a first approximation, preserving floodplains as natural areas is intelligent public policy for a host of reasons.
Floodplain construction is typcially high-risk, high-cost, and highly-damaging to a wide range of wildlife.
What are the arguments in favor of it? |
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RWL
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| Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 9:55 am Post subject: |
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| Check the flood plain regulations of FEMA, and the Army Corps of Engineers. They are separate documents and provide for rather strict and strenuous construction; have details, etc. |
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Kevin
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| Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 10:19 am Post subject: |
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FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers would be great resources. Although, their long-term history with regard to the environment includes many large scale disasters.
I forgot to finish this thought in my post above:
| Quote: | | Where I largely grew up in eastern Massachusetts, in the U.S., there were reasonably effective regulations against building in a river floodplain. |
The rest of the thought is this: The results of those controls was a beautiful landscape, where the rivers were surrounded by natural marshes, full of migratory and resident birds, flowering plants, and other wildlife.
Sometimes, doing nothing is the best design! |
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