Urban Flood Control Research Articles

A CRAZY IDEA ON URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT?1

ABSTRACT. High percentage of imperviousness in the city is the source of storm runoff. Roof area contributes significantly to the imperviousness. An attempt to make use of roofs as urban flood control device and water conservation measure is advocated. Two different schemes, one for built‐up industrial‐commercial area, the other for residential area, are suggested. The former utilizes the roof as detention reservoir for flood control, the latter employs recharge pit to convert runoff into ground water resource. The proposed schemes are not only hydrologically, hydraulically and structurally sound but also economically feasible. It is worth considering in the future planning of urban renewal and urban development.

Economics of Urban Drainage Design

Determination of air-water space to emphasize problems of avoiding damage from excess precipitation and runoff; application of laws of continuity and of conservation of energy is considered in order to point out basic principles involved in detailed planning and engineering problems involving management of air-water space; examination of economic concepts of storage and transportation and of planning criteria for urban area drainage and flood control system.