RAPID: Flood and Erosion Reconnaissance: Hurricanes Irene and Lee, Upstate New York and Western New England

快速：洪水和侵蚀勘察：飓风艾琳和李，纽约州北部和新英格兰西部

• 批准号: 1158899
• 负责人: Thomas Zimmie
• 金额: $ 3.01万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1158899&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Flood; Erosion; Reconnaissance; Hurricanes

As a result of two large rainfall events from Hurricanes Irene and Lee around the last week of August, 2011 and the first weeks of September, 2011, a large part of the northeast US from Virginia to New England has experienced devastating and historic levels of flooding. The intent of this award is to document the flood damage, performing reconnaissance with a team of RPI faculty and students, interacting with various agencies such as State DOT?s, USGS and FEMA, and producing a comprehensive report in the summer of 2012. A rapid response is required to obtain this highly perishable and valuable flood data. The field work will begin as soon as possible, most will have to be done in the next few months prior to winter weather. It may be possible to do some field work next spring 2012, such as follow up and documentation of interesting and important case studies. Work on the report will continue during this winter 2011-12, including coordination and cooperation with the agencies noted above. The intent is to produce a final report summer of 2012. The report will also reference and provide links to other reports and sources of data published by other agencies. Typical data collected will be hydrological, consisting of high water levels, flow quantities and flood recurrence intervals; geotechnical data required to do slope and landslide stability analyses; scour and erosion data related to bridge and dam failures; and documentation such as photography and LIDAR measurements. Much of this data will have been obtained by other agencies. Even conservative estimates of flood damage in upstate NY, Western New England and Northern PA regions are in the tens of billions of dollars. This flood damage must be documented. FEMA, as recently directed by Congress, is in the process of revising its flood mapping procedures, and these floods will likely have an impact on FEMA procedures and the National Flood Insurance Program. The potential impact on insurance rates for U.S. property owners is in the many billions of dollars. This event is historic, and much can be learned about hydrology, flooding, river flow, erosion and more. This once in a lifetime (we hope) event must be well documented and studied. The numbers are not in, but it is clear that many water bodies have exceeded all time recorded levels, and many have experienced 500 year floods.

由于2011年8月最后一周和9月前几周飓风艾琳和李造成的两次大降雨事件，美国东北部从弗吉尼亚州到新英格兰的大部分地区经历了毁灭性的历史性洪水。 这个奖项的目的是记录洪水破坏，执行侦察与RPI的教师和学生的团队，与各种机构，如国家交通部？美国地质调查局和联邦应急管理局，并在2012年夏天制作一份综合报告。 需要快速反应，以获得这种非常容易损坏和宝贵的洪水数据。野外工作将尽快开始，大部分工作将在冬季天气来临前的几个月内完成。 2012年春季可能会开展一些实地工作，例如对有趣和重要的案例研究采取后续行动并进行记录。 2011- 2012年冬季期间将继续开展报告工作，包括与上述机构的协调与合作。 目的是在2012年夏天编写一份最后报告。该报告还将参考其他机构发布的其他报告和数据来源，并提供链接。 收集的典型数据将是水文数据，包括高水位、流量和洪水复发间隔;进行边坡和滑坡稳定性分析所需的岩土工程数据;与桥梁和大坝故障有关的冲刷和侵蚀数据;以及摄影和激光雷达测量等文件。其中大部分数据将由其他机构获得。即使是保守的估计，纽约州北部、新英格兰西部和宾夕法尼亚州北方地区的洪水损失也在数百亿美元之内。 这种洪水破坏必须记录在案。 根据国会最近的指示，联邦应急管理局正在修订其洪水测绘程序，这些洪水可能会对联邦应急管理局的程序和国家洪水保险计划产生影响。 对美国业主保险费率的潜在影响是数十亿美元。 这一事件是历史性的，可以学到很多关于水文，洪水，河流流量，侵蚀等。这一生一次（我们希望）的事件必须得到很好的记录和研究。 虽然没有具体数字，但很明显，许多水体已经超过了有史以来的水位，许多水体经历了500年一遇的洪水。