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Modeling residual flood risk behind levees, Upper Mississippi River, USA

Nicholas Pinter Fredrik, Huthoff Jennifer, Dierauer W. F., Remo Amanda, Damptz

Published in Environmental Science & Policy

Flood protection from levees is a mixed blessing, excluding water from the floodplain but creating higher flood levels (“surcharges”) and promoting “residual risk” of flood damages. This study completed 2D hydrodynamic modeling and flood-damage analyses for the 459 km2 Sny Island levee system on the Upper Mississippi River. These levees provide lar...

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