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Stony Brook, Princeton, NJ
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Peak of discharge 8am Wed 4/13http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nj/nwis/uv/?site_no=01401000&agency_cd=USGS
lag time of 13 hours
Peak of rainfall 7pm Tues 4/12http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/obhistory/KTTN.html
A rainy day
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A really rainy day
Hurricane Irene, last August
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Sensitivity of recurrence interval analysis to peak events?
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RI of 13,500cfs~1000 yrs (0.1%)
RI of 13,500cfs~10000 yrs (0.01%)
Both trendlines fit logarithmically
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Rahway River, at Springfield, NJ
(LG’s hometown stream)
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Hurricane Agnes (as a kid, LPG’s basement full of water, and
had fun paddling the floating sandbox around…)
Hurricane Floyd
1980’s – mitigation (dikes, retention basins)
$$$
More work proposed - $
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Rahway River at Springfield, NJPeak Annual Discharge
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Hurricane IreneAugust 2011
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Cranford inundated by flood waters; power could be out for five to seven days
By the Cranford Chronicle
Monday August 29, 2011 Cranford has sustained severe damage from Hurricane Irene. Residents were ordered to evacuate on Saturday, and had to be out by 8 p.m. Those who live in a 100-year flood zone area, the order was expanded to include a 500-year flood zone area…
The meandering Rahway River had always been one of the things that drew people to Cranford. Families rented canoes from the local canoe club to paddle through town. Joggers ran along winding paths along the river’s banks. Cranford’s ties to the water helped earn the Union County township the nickname "Venice of New Jersey…“
But this weekend, the river shocked much of the town when it broke through dikes and overflowed earthen dams to flood residential neighborhoods and downtown streets…
The damage in Cranford is immense. Areas of Cranford not touched by a flood before were inundated… A release from Cranford Police Department on Sunday event said "the Cranford Municipal Building and Police Department has been shut down due to flooding and severe damage. The Police Department is running out of a mobile command post."
Mayor Dan Aschenbach said the damage is staggering: Nearly 1,300 residences — or more than 15 percent of the township’s houses — have significant flood damage. Of those, nearly 200 houses had water up to the first floor. Seven have already been condemned. More than 6,000 residents lost power…
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Dave Pringle ’88
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Santa Ana River, Los Angeles area, CA
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The 1938 Los Angeles flood (in early 1938) was a major flooding event that was responsible for inundating much of Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties, California. The flood was caused by a pair of oceanic storms that swept inland across the area in February and March 1938, causing abnormal rainfall across much of coastal Southern California. 113[ to 115 people perished in the flood, which was one of the most catastrophic disasters in area history.[ The flood caused the destruction of roads, bridges, and buildings, stranded hundreds of people, and resulted in the flooding of three area rivers and their tributaries; these were the Santa Ana, Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers…
The flooding event of 1938 was…considered a 50-year flood, meaning that it has a 2 percent chance of occurring any given year. The flood resulted in $40 million of damages, and …heavily affected public opinion on the safety of area rivers, and as a result, the US Army Corps of Engineers was prompted to begin channelization of the river, and construction of more flood control dams…channelization, however, does not remove all dangers of floods; there were major floods in 1969, 1980, 1983, 1992, and 1994, with the last said to probably be a 100-year flood. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Flood_of_1938
The Santa Ana River, in flood in 1938.
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Santa Ana River, Santa Ana, CA Peak Annual Discharge
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“50-yr flood” of 1938
In response: channelization,
flood control dams
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Santa Ana River, Santa Ana, CA Peak Annual Discharge
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Santa Ana River - note intense development of the area, and artificial straightening and channelization of the river
Chase scene from “Terminator 2”
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Santa Ana River
with water.
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…channelization, however, does not remove all dangers of floods; there were major floods in 1969, 1980, 1983, 1992, and 1994, with the last said to probably be a 100-year flood
“100-yr flood”
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Colorado River,southwestern US
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http://snobear.colorado.edu/Markw/Tye/grand_canyon_01.html
gauging station
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What happened here? Ideas?
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Daily Discharge for 1 year
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Lake Powell
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Glen Canyon Dam
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Glen Canyon Dam
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Daily Discharge for 1 year
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Glen Canyon Dam
Lake Powell
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Sept 2007 ~10,000cfs
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On March 5, 2008, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne pulled the levers at Glen Canyon Dam to release high flows into the Colorado River… Water was released through Glen Canyon Dam's powerplant and bypass tubes to a maximum amount of approximately 41,500 cubic feet per second for about 60 hours. The experiment was designed to enhance the habitat in the canyon and its wildlife, and learn more about these complex natural systems…
2008 High-Flow Experiment from Glen Canyon Dam
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March 8-9, 2008
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at river mile 84.4
(Downstream of Glen Canyon Dam)
Sept 2007 ~10,000cfs
March 2008 ~10,000cfs
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Lake Powell
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Lake Mead
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Hoover Dam
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Lake Mead from Hoover Dam, down to 55% capacity (April 2012)
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NYTimes September 27, 2010
Water Use in Southwest Heads for a Day of Reckoning
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NYTimes September 27, 2010 by Felicity Barringer
Water Use in Southwest Heads for a Day of Reckoning
A once-unthinkable day is looming on the Colorado River…For the first time, federal estimates issued in August indicate that Lake Mead, the heart of the lower Colorado basin’s water system — irrigating lettuce, onions and wheat in reclaimed corners of the Sonoran Desert, and lawns and golf courses from Las Vegas to Los Angeles — could drop below a crucial demarcation line of 1,075 feet.
If it does, that will set in motion a temporary distribution plan approved in 2007 by the seven states with claims to the river and by the federal Bureau of Reclamation, and water deliveries to Arizona and Nevada would be reduced….This could mean more dry lawns, shorter showers and fallow fields in those states, although conservation efforts might help them adjust to the cutbacks. California, which has first call on the Colorado River flows in the lower basin, would not be affected…
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NYTimes July 21, 2011 by Julia Pyper
A Paradox for the West's Plumbing System: Flood on the Top, Drought on the Bottom
The Colorado River…(is) a life source of the more than 30 million people who rely on it…But in recent years, the Colorado River has become less reliable. Since 1999, abnormally low precipitation totals and hot and dry conditions have brought reservoir water levels close to record lows. The multiyear drought, the most severe since documentation began more than 100 years ago, has put the water supply in the thirsty Southwest in jeopardy.
This year, heavy snowpack and spring precipitation have brought the region some relief by partially refilling the reservoirs. But…the southern end of the Colorado River continues to stop shy of the Sea of Cortez, where it used to run until the late 1990s.
The paradox is that this season stands in such stark contrast to the past 11 years of drought, highlighting the types of variability that climate change can wreak on the hydrological cycle. "It's not at all uncommon for the basin to have high runoff years in a longer period of drought," said Pamela Adams… "We can see that in both the past 100 years of data, plus you can see it in the tree-ring data."
Concerns regarding the reliability of the Colorado River system to meet the future needs of Basin resources in the 21st-century are heightened, given the likelihood of increasing demand for water throughout the Basin, coupled with projections of reduced supply due to climate change," wrote the authors of the report..