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Economic Analysis Of Flood Detention Storage By Digital Computer, James Ray Villines, L. Douglas James
Economic Analysis Of Flood Detention Storage By Digital Computer, James Ray Villines, L. Douglas James
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The objective of this study was to develop a digital computer procedure for preliminary analysis of the economic justification of reservoir detention storage for flood control and to present a sample study illustrating its application. A computer program called the University of Kentucky Flood Control Planning Program III was developed and tested on the flood plain of the South Fork of the Licking River in northeastern Kentucky.
Given a specified reservoir site and a downstream flood plain divided into planning units, Program III selects the economically efficient combination of reservoir detention storage and the associated combination of channel improvement, flood …