Brush Creek, Kansas City, Missouri. Hydraulic Model Investigation

Abstract

Brush Creek drains approximately 29.4 square miles of urban area in the central portion of the Kansas City, MO, metropolitan area. Diverse development covers the entire area. Within the study reach, State Line Road to Woodland Avenue, the channel is crossed by a number of bridges that present varying degrees of flow restriction. Although several previous studies by the US Army Engineer District, Kansas City, identified a severe flood hazard along Brush Creek, a damaging flood in the Plaza area had never been experienced prior to September 1977. On 12 and 13 September 1977, the Kansas City metropolitan region experienced flooding of catastrophic proportions. The Plaza area was devastated with 5 to 6 ft of water in shops and restaurants adjacent to Brush Creek. As a result of the September 1977 flood, the Kansas City District was asked to study the flooding problem. A number of structural and nonstructural measures were identified that could reduce the flood hazard.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA248499

Entities

People

  • Herman O. Turner Jr.
  • Walter Linder

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Construction
  • Engineers
  • Flood Control
  • Flood Damage
  • Flood Hazards
  • Floods
  • Forests
  • Frequency
  • Froude Number
  • Hazards
  • Hydraulic Models
  • Measurement
  • Models
  • Standing Waves
  • Stilling Basins
  • Supercritical Flow
  • Urban Areas

Readers

  • Archaeological Resource Survey
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Hydraulic Engineering.