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I II I I. I, I I I I I I I I I I I I I I flood fighting operationa. The bottoll width 18 dependent on the 1_. helght. One vertical on three hor1zontal dde .lop.. were us.d to awid damage by WaVe action and to faciUtate ea.e of _ing. It wa. det.mned that r1prap would not be nece..ary with any of the levee dedp. Floodwalh were used in .ubarea. 1 and 2 wher. .dequat. right-of- way wa. not available for the use of earth-ber.ed l.v.... The flooclvaU. were used along the levee aUpenta where the location of hOlle. and IAOtal building. prevent. adequate clearance for eartb-berMd leve... An itlVllr- ted "T" floodwall was used in these area.. A typical .ection 18 .how on plate 7. Flooclvall height. ranged frOll 6.5 to 7.5 feet. Subarea 3 would require the conatruction of a ring levee to ade- quately protect the hOlies in thi. area. A ring levee de.ign i. nece.sery because high ground 18 not available in the 1DIIIed1ata vicinity to tie off a single length of levee. The ring levee i. .hown a. alignment 4. Aouurtenant Feature.. A provision for the rellOVal of .urface runoff froll the .re.. protected by levee. would be ..de by inatalling drainaae .tructure. through the levee. In general, the .trueture. would be c1e- signed to adequately drain the area during low-flow perioda on the river. The right-bank area that draina into the Kilk Il1ver conabt. of 332 acres of nearly level land. Most of thi. area i. in cOllllercial and residential land use. Based on drainage patterns cletemined froll the topographic upping of the area, there would be a need for two outlet. in subarea 1 and three outlet. in subarea 2. An interior drainage .tudy was conducted in 1967 for a levee project extending along the right bank of the entire river reach through Male.. It determined that five drainage structures would be necessary, rangiac froll 24 to 48 inches in diameter. All were designed to ba reinforced 27