Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin:

An Evaluation

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Size: 256 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1995

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Committee on Flood Control Alternatives in the American River Basin, National Research Council
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This book reviews the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) investigations of flood control options for the American River basin and evaluates flood control feasibility studies for the watershed, with attention to the contingency assumptions, hydrologic methods, and other analyses ...
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FRONT MATTER	i-xiv	(skim)
SUMMARY	1-12	(skim)
1 INTRODUCTION	13-31	(skim)
2 IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVES	32-84	(skim)
3 ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES	85-113	(skim)
4 RISK METHODOLOGY	114-163	(skim)
5 FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT BEHIND LEVEES	164-176	(skim)
6 FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE AMERICAN RIVER AND THE UNITED STATES	177-202	(skim)
7 FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS	203-218	(skim)
REFERENCES	219-230	(skim)
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS	231-234	(skim)
B GUIDE TO ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS	235-235	(skim)

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This book reviews the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) investigations of flood control options for the American River basin and evaluates flood control feasibility studies for the watershed, with attention to the contingency assumptions, hydrologic methods, and other analyses supporting the flood control options.
This book provides detailed comments on many technical issues, including a careful review of the 1991 National Research Council report American River Watershed Investigation, and looks beyond the Sacramento case to broader questions about the nation's approach to flood risk management. It discusses how to utilize information available about flood hazard reduction alternatives for the American River basin, the potential benefits provided by various alternatives, the impacts of alternatives on environmental resources and ecosystems, and the trade-offs inherent in any choice among alternatives which does not lie in the realm of scientists and engineers, but in the arena of public decisionmaking.

Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin:

An Evaluation

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