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Title: Flood Hazard Recurrence Frequencies for the Savannah River Site

Abstract

Department of Energy (DOE) regulations outline the requirements for Natural Phenomena Hazard (NPH) mitigation for new and existing DOE facilities. The NPH considered in this report is flooding. The facility-specific probabilistic flood hazard curve defines, as a function of water elevation, the annual probability of occurrence or the return period in years. The facility-specific probabilistic flood hazard curves provide basis to avoid unnecessary facility upgrades, to establish appropriate design criteria for new facilities, and to develop emergency preparedness plans to mitigate the consequences of floods. A method based on precipitation, basin runoff and open channel hydraulics was developed to determine probabilistic flood hazard curves for the Savannah River Site. The calculated flood hazard curves show that the probabilities of flooding existing SRS major facilities are significantly less than 1.E-05 per year.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
US Department of Energy (US)
OSTI Identifier:
783021
Report Number(s):
WSRC-MS-2001-00416
TRN: US0103711
DOE Contract Number:  
AC09-96SR18500
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Additional Journal Information:
Other Information: PBD: 11 Jul 2001
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; FLOODS; MITIGATION; PROBABILITY; REGULATIONS; RUNOFF; SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT; NATURAL DISASTERS; PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION; EMERGENCY PLANS; ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS

Citation Formats

Chen, K F. Flood Hazard Recurrence Frequencies for the Savannah River Site. United States: N. p., 2001. Web.
Chen, K F. Flood Hazard Recurrence Frequencies for the Savannah River Site. United States.
Chen, K F. 2001. "Flood Hazard Recurrence Frequencies for the Savannah River Site". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/783021.
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abstractNote = {Department of Energy (DOE) regulations outline the requirements for Natural Phenomena Hazard (NPH) mitigation for new and existing DOE facilities. The NPH considered in this report is flooding. The facility-specific probabilistic flood hazard curve defines, as a function of water elevation, the annual probability of occurrence or the return period in years. The facility-specific probabilistic flood hazard curves provide basis to avoid unnecessary facility upgrades, to establish appropriate design criteria for new facilities, and to develop emergency preparedness plans to mitigate the consequences of floods. A method based on precipitation, basin runoff and open channel hydraulics was developed to determine probabilistic flood hazard curves for the Savannah River Site. The calculated flood hazard curves show that the probabilities of flooding existing SRS major facilities are significantly less than 1.E-05 per year.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/783021}, journal = {Journal of Hydrologic Engineering},
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year = {Wed Jul 11 00:00:00 EDT 2001},
month = {Wed Jul 11 00:00:00 EDT 2001}
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