DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION METHOD FOR FLOOD FIGHTING ACTIVITIES IN CASE OF THE KISO RIVER BASIN, JAPAN

Abstract

 Flood fighting activities are one of the most important measure to mitigate flood damages in cooperation with flood protection measures. Although the activities have to be conducted effectively with considering appropriate human resource allocation, however, its quantitative evaluation has not been conducted because of the strong territorial characteristics so on. This study aims to develop a quantitative evaluation method for flood fighting activities. We developed a method which considered a needed work volume to protect levee, needed amount of activities to conduct flood fighting, and flood forecasting lead time. In addition, we applied the method to scenario simulation in the Kiso River basin, Japan.