New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. IV: Orleans East Bank (Metro) protected basin

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 762-779

  Seed, R B ^a   Bea, R G ^a   Athanasopoulos Zekkos, A ^a   Boutwell, G P ^b   Bray, J D ^a   Cheung, C ^c   Cobos Roa, D ^d   Cohen Waeber, J ^e   Collins, B D ^f   Harder Jr , L F ^g   Kayen, R E ^f   Pestana, J M ^a   Riemer, M F ^a   Rogers, J D ^h   Storesund, R ⁱ   Vera Grunauer, X ^j   Wartman, J ^k  

^a 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

^b Ardaman and Associates   (United States)

^c HDR Inc   (United States)

^d URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^e GEOSYNTEC CONSULTANTS   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^g HDR Incorporated   (United States)

^h MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ Rune Storesund   (United States)

^j CVA Consulting Group   (Ecuador)

^k Drexel University   (United States)

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Author keywords

Floods; Hurricanes; Louisiana; River basins

Indexed keywords

FLOOD DAMAGE; HURRICANE EFFECTS; LEVEES; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

POTENTIAL SYSTEM FAILURES;

RIVER BASIN PROJECTS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD DAMAGE; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; LEVEE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER BASIN; STORM DAMAGE;

LOUISIANA; NEW ORLEANS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42549151877     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2008)134:5(762)     Document Type: Article

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