Overview of Levee Setback Projects and Benefits

Abstract

PURPOSE: This Coastal and Hydraulics Engineering Technical Note (CHETN) provides an overview of levee setback projects and their potential benefits. Levee setbacks relocate a traditional river levee farther away from the channel to provide additional floodplain storage, thereby reducing flood heights, slowing flood peaks, and in some cases, providing ecosystem and recreational benefits.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 31, 2017
Accession Number
AD1037439

Entities

People

  • Charles H. Theiling
  • Travis Dahl
  • Waleska Echevarria

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aquatic Organisms
  • Birds
  • Climate Change
  • Communities
  • Ecosystems
  • Engineers
  • Fish
  • Flood Control
  • Flood Damage
  • Flood Hazards
  • Floods
  • Habitats
  • Plants
  • Risk Management
  • Sedimentation
  • United States
  • Urban Areas

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Physics

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering