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<br />Friday. July 12 <br /> <br />10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon <br /> <br />Putting Effective Flood Warning Systems in Place: <br />The Process and the Guidelines <br /> <br />John Handmer <br />Flood Hazard Research Centre <br />Middlesex University <br />and <br />Chas Keys <br />State Emergency Service <br />Wollongong, New South Wales <br />Australia <br /> <br />In areas without too many constraints (high population, intensive agriculture) a stonnwater <br />detention basin system distributed over the entire catchment area seems to be the most <br />appropriate. On a local scale, reliability of the protection measure may be based on more <br />traditional techniques involving hydrologic and hydraulic modeling of two-dimensional steady <br />flows. <br /> <br />After defining the risk of flooding at different scales and multiple criteria for selecting among <br />alternative measures of floodplain protection and management, the methodology is illustrated in <br />a case .study from Greece (Giofyros Basin, Crete Island), where a devastating flood occurred on <br />the 13th of January, 1994. Possible remedial structural and non-structural solutions are analyzed <br />which may protect the inhabited area and important public buildings from future extreme floods. <br /> <br />15 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br />