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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Robert G. Watts
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
18h 5m
English
CRC Press
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184 Engineering Response to Climate Change
Climate-induced changes could potentially alter these physical conditions,
and thus affect channel and port navigational capacity. The result would
be an alteration of operation and maintenance costs and a reduction of the
condent use of the port, in addition to making the identication and justi-
cation of new facilities difcult.
See Chapter 9 for a further discussion of transportation impacts.
5.2.2.3 Flood Damage Reduction
Flood control structures (channels, dams and spillways, levees, retention
and detention basins, and oodwalls) are designed to provide protection
against events with an occurrence frequency based on statistics derived from
historical data. For example, many levee systems are designed ...
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