The International Levee Handbook, 2013
The International Levee Handbook, 2013
UK, Ireland, France, USA, Germany
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Levees in flood risk management
3 Functions, forms and failure of levees
4 Operation and maintenance (O&M)
5 Levee inspection, assessment and risk attribution
6 Emergency management and operations
7 Site characterization and data requirements
8 Physical processes and tools for levees assessment and design
9 Design
10 Construction
1.1 Use of levees
1.2 Background to the handbook
1.3 Scope
1.4 Structure of the handbook
1.5 Target readership
2.1 Managing flood risk
2.2 Measures and instruments for flood risk management
2.3 Levee management
2.4 Roles and responsibilities in levee management
2.5 References
3.1 Functions of levees
3.2 Forms and functions of levee components
3.3 Forms of levees
3.4 Structures associated with levees
3.5 Understanding failure of levees
3.6 References
3.7 Further reading
4.1 Applying asset management principles to O&M
4.2 Operations
4.3 Maintenance
4.4 Encroachments
4.5 Vegetation management
4.6 Borrowing animals
4.7 Erosion and bank caving
4.8 Depressions and rutting
4.9 Settlement and subsidence
4.10 Seepage
4.11 Instability
4.12 Cracking
4.13 Levee slope and bank protection
4.14 Closure structures
4.15 Culverts and discharge pipe systems
4.16 Levee transitions
4.17 Flood walls
4.18 References
4.19 Further reading
5.1 Framework for analysis and decision making
5.2 Risk analysis and attribution
5.3 Levee performance assessment and diagnosis methodology
5.4 Inspections
5.5 Investigations, instrumentation and monitoring
5.6 Levee knowledge and data management
5.7 References
6.1 Emergency management principles
6.2 Emergency planning
6.3 Readiness and preparedness
6.4 Event and crisis management
6.5 Intervention techniques
6.6 Response to external erosion and techniques for intervention
6.7 Response to internal erosion and techniques for intervention
6.8 Response to instability and techniques for intervention
6.9 Breach management and techniques for intervention
6.10 Innovative technologies for crest raising
6.11 References
7.1 Principles of site characterization
7.2 Morphological, hydraulic and other natural actions on levees
7.3 Morphology and hydraulic actions for riverine levees
7.4 Morphology and hydraulic actions for coastal and shoreline levees
7.5 Morphology and hydraulic actions for estuarine levees
7.6 Human actions on levees
7.7 Ground investigation for levees
7.8 Geotechnical parameters
7.9 Site investigation methods
8.1 Principles
8.2 External hydraulic processes
8.3 Internal hydraulic processes
8.4 External erosion
8.5 Internal erosion
8.6 Slope stability
8.7 Settlement
8.8 Seismic analysis
8.9 Stability of flood walls
8.10 Breach
8.11 Flood inundation
8.12 Reference
8.13 Further reading
9.1 Principles of levee design
9.2 The levee design process
9.3 Reporting and documentation
9.4 Levee layout and alignment
9.5 Levee geometry
9.6 Surface protection measures
9.7 Control of seepage and uplift
9.8 Control of internal erosion
9.9 Mass stability throughout levee life
9.10 Analysing failure mechanisms
9.11 Transitions
9.12 Design for serviceability
9.13 Levee earthworks
9.14 Spillways
9.15 Associated structures
9.16 Design input – construction and operation stages
10.1 Organisation of construction process
10.2 Allowing for hydro-meteorological conditions
10.3 Setting up and managing the site
10.4 Fundamentals of earth construction
10.5 Methods of construction
10.6 Reference
10.7 Further reading