THE FUTURE VISION OF THE MAINTENANCE OF RIVER LEVEES

Abstract

The maintenace of river levees in the United States, the United Kingdom, Netherland, France and Germany is introduced in this paper. It is summarised that the visual inspection commonly plays the major part of the maintenance. Moreover, the maintenance in the U.S. and the U.K. is characterised by the analysis of the visual inspection results based on risk or whole life cycle cost. As the conlusion of this paper, the maintenace in Japan is discussed considering the condition of river levees in the country.