Chapter #6 Solutions - Natural Hazards - Duane E DeVecchio, Edward A Keller - 4th Edition

1ctq. You are a planner working for a community that is expanding into the headwater portions of drainage basins. You are aware of the effects of urbanization on flooding and want to make recommendations to avoid some of these effects. Outline a plan of action. Get solution

2ctq. You are working for a regional flood-control agency that has been channelizing streams for many years. Although bulldozers are usually used to straighten and widen the channel, the agency has been criticized for causing extensive environmental damage. You have been asked to develop new plans for channel restoration to be implemented as a stream maintenance program. Devise a plan of action that would convince the official in charge of the maintenance program that your ideas will improve the urban stream environment and help reduce the potential flood hazard. Get solution

3ctq. Does the community you live in have a flood hazard? If not, why not? If there is a hazard, what has been done or is being done to reduce the hazard? What more could be done? Get solution

4ctq. Your parents have recently heard about atmospheric rivers and past megafloods on a documentary film shown on television. They ask you what you think, having taken a course on natural hazards. How do you answer their question? Get solution