2012 年 18 巻 p. 275-280
Researches of river levees have been constructed by placing emphasis on the shape from the view of foundation engineering such as the height and width because of long construction history and massive length. Therefore, consideration from hydraulic engineering on levee design has not made sufficiently in spite of the important river facility. The author pointed out that hydraulic and river engineering researches have hardly paid attention on the presence of levees and researchers in the field of foundation engineering and hydraulic engineering have to cooperate for the establishment of safe levee design.
The paper shows by examples that the presence of levees must always be considered in researches and management of rivers and hydraulic functions should be visible and active in the society, because all hydraulic phenomena in rivers are regulated by levees.