Print Email Facebook Twitter Reconnaissance Level Studies on a Storm Surge Barrier for Flood Risk Reduction in the Houston-Galveston Bay Title Reconnaissance Level Studies on a Storm Surge Barrier for Flood Risk Reduction in the Houston-Galveston Bay Author Jonkman, S.N. Mooyaart, L.F. Van Ledden, M. Stoeten, K.J. De Vries, P.A.L. Lendering, K.T. Van der Toorn, A. Willems, A. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2014-06-15 Abstract The Houston - Galveston area is at significant risk from hurricane induced storm surges. This paper summarizes ongoing studies on flood risk reduction for the region. Firstly, based on a simplified probabilistic hurricane surge model , the return periods of surges within the bay have been estimated. This model framework can be used to assess the effectiveness of several risk reduction interventions. Sketch- and conceptual designs have been made of a storm surge barrier in the Bolivar Roads, that would be part of the Ike Dike coastal protection concept. Such a storm surge barrier would consist of two parts, an environmental section for flow requirements (consisting of caissons with vertical gates) and a navigation section of the barrier (consisting of a barge gate), which would allow unhindered passage of navigation during normal conditions. Future questions and challenges for flood risk reduction in the Bay are identified. Subject storm surge barrierhurricanesprobabilistic analysisflood riskcoastal protectionflood defencesHouston-Galveston BayICCE 2014 To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:57eaed59-a5fb-452f-8913-27fa35b70323 Publisher Coastal Engineering Research Council ISBN 978-0-9896611-2-6 Source ICCE 2014: Proceedings of 34th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Seoul, Korea, 15-20 June 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2014 The Author(s) Files PDF 7435-31146-1-PB.pdf 388.41 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:57eaed59-a5fb-452f-8913-27fa35b70323/datastream/OBJ/view