Abstract

Forecasting flood characteristics (e.g., water levels and velocity) is a growing concern due to climate change. It is therefore necessary to consider the stability conditions of earthen levees used to mitigate floods during a flood risk assessment. This technical note presents a method to assess probabilistic flood hazard that takes into account levee failures, for a levee located along Etobicoke Creek in Toronto, Canada. We compute flood scenario probabilities resulting from multiple flood scenarios that accounts for both the levee failures across the length of the levee, and different levee-failure mechanisms (e.g., backward erosion and overtopping). Then, for each location of the flooded area, we compute a cumulative flood exceedance probability curve for flood depth and velocity. This method provides a flood-hazard map (depth and velocity) for a given probability and probabilistic maps for given values of depth or velocity.

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