FLOOD06513

• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Sizing Flood Control Reservoir Systems by System Analysis
• Date: 2/1/1979
• Prepared For: US
• Prepared By: COE
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

hydrologic results of system operation arranged by sequence of time
periods; summary of flooding for system; summary of reservoir releases
and control point flows by period; sl/l!ITIlIry of conservation operation
if monthly routing was made; summary of maxifllUm f1O\~s, storages, etc.,
for each flood event; summary of maximum and minimum data for all
floodS; sunmary of expected annual damages and benefits; and summary
of system costs (capital and annual) and system net economic benefits.
Output can be suppressed to that of interest for a particular simula-
tion and a number of convenient graphical displays are available.

FLOOD CONTROL SYSTEM FORMULATION

The objectives of system formulation are to (1) identify the

individual components, (2) determine the size of each, (3) determine

the order in which the system components should be implemented, and

(4) develop and display the information required to justify the

decisions and thus secure system implementation. In the interest

of brevity, the following discussion is confined to identifying the

components that would comprise the best system.

Formulation Criteria. - Criteria for system formulation are
needed to distinguish the best system from among competing alterna-
tive systems. The definition of "best" is crucial.
a. Viewpoint. - A reasonable viewpoint would seem to
recognize that simply aggregating the most attractive individual

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