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Case Study of Rapid Levee Armoring During 2011 Mississippi River Flood and Potential Future Applications
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) installed approximately 5.6 linear km of temporary armoring to the land side of the Yazoo Backwater Levee near Vicksburg, MS to help prevent levee failure during the 2011 Mississippi River flooding. Temporary armoring included 30-mil thick HDPE geomembrane held in place at the levee crest with a trench filled with semi-compacted fill, 0.4 m long liner pins, and sandbags and at the toe with 0.4-m long liner pins and sandbags at a cost of $1.5 million. Total construction time was approximately 6 days with a crew of 64 people. Rapidly deployable temporary protection as on the backwater levee can help prevent failure during low-flow overtopping events (e.g. river flooding). The concept potentially could be extended to larger flooding and storm events (e.g. overtopping in hurricanes) using shear stress wave data and short anchor pullout data to design a more robust protection system.
Case Study of Rapid Levee Armoring During 2011 Mississippi River Flood and Potential Future Applications
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) installed approximately 5.6 linear km of temporary armoring to the land side of the Yazoo Backwater Levee near Vicksburg, MS to help prevent levee failure during the 2011 Mississippi River flooding. Temporary armoring included 30-mil thick HDPE geomembrane held in place at the levee crest with a trench filled with semi-compacted fill, 0.4 m long liner pins, and sandbags and at the toe with 0.4-m long liner pins and sandbags at a cost of $1.5 million. Total construction time was approximately 6 days with a crew of 64 people. Rapidly deployable temporary protection as on the backwater levee can help prevent failure during low-flow overtopping events (e.g. river flooding). The concept potentially could be extended to larger flooding and storm events (e.g. overtopping in hurricanes) using shear stress wave data and short anchor pullout data to design a more robust protection system.
Case Study of Rapid Levee Armoring During 2011 Mississippi River Flood and Potential Future Applications
Bilberry, Amanda C. (author) / Pinkard, Jr., C. Fred (author) / Howard, Isaac L. (author)
Geo-Congress 2013 ; 2013 ; San Diego, California, United States
Geo-Congress 2013 ; 1915-1924
2013-02-25
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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