Baghdad flood Residential zone exposed to inundation by Mosul dam Hypothetical failure

Abstract

Lately most of institutions in the world interest in floods states and the impact of inundation on the cities and land use that content of, because it’s important to realize the amount of hazard that will be faced when the flood occur by any case (Pluvial flood and dam failure flood), Which make the habitants understand how to deal with this flooded area each according to its location and conditions, In this paper we will confine the Residential zone in Baghdad city that exposure to flood causing by Mosul dam failure, GIS technique help us to observe, understand and calculate the areas of land use in cites that exposed to inundation hazard to study the scenario to deal with and treat this area, and understand how suitable the location planning of this land use, By using the Hypothetical dam’s failure model of Mosul dam which built from the Digital Elevation Model and the cross sections of the rivers (That done by Iraqi ministry of water resources using HEC RASS program), Intersection this model with the Layers (shape files) of Baghdad city Residential zone, the analysis’s layer (the result layer) will show the damaged areas and it’s percentage to Residential use.