Flood Hazard Mapping and Damage Analysis for Meki River Using Hec-Ras And Hec-Fda Models
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2017-12
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Flooding causes major damage on the economic, social and environment of the affected
area. Overflow of Meki River has affected and displaced the people and destroyed farm
land along the river in the flood plain area of Dugda Woreda in the summer season. In late
March and early April 2016 floods destroyed 485.75 hectares farm land and damage 80
farmer houses. This research develops flood hazard maps and damage analysis along Meki
River. The digital elevation model of the study area was used to extract the physical
characteristics of the catchment using HEC-GeoHMS GIS extension. HEC-HMS
hydrological model was used to generate flow hydrograph for different return periods at the
outlet of the catchment using the design rainfall. Flood inundation and hazard maps along
Meki River have been developed based on the flow hydrographs for different return periods
using the HEC-RAS model, GIS for spatial data processing and HEC-GeoRAS for
interfacing between HEC-RAS and GIS. Based on the output of HEC-RAS hydraulic model,
using HEC-FDA, flood damages were estimated quantitatively. The areas along the Meki
River simulated to be inundated for 2, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50 and 100 years return period. The
flooded areas were high from Meki town to Lake Ziway for all return periods. The flood
inundated area along the Meki River for a return period of 100, 50, 25, 20, 10, 5, and 2
years were 15.52, 14.99, 14.02, 13.57, 12.95, 12.50 and 11.52 km
respectively. The flood
hazard map results were low, moderate, high and very high hazard levels based on the flood
depths generated using HEC-GeoRAS GIS extension. Finally, the cost of flood damages was
evaluated using HEC-FDA and mitigation measures were proposed to reduce the damages
due to flooding in study area. The sum of expected annual damage for eight return period
intervals was 707,193,871 birr. The major findings in the study indicate that inundated
areas in the lower part of Meki River were made economic damage on agricultural farm
land and settlement. Therefore, increasing the width of the river channel or construction of
levees has been proposed to reduce the economic damage of flooding in lower river parts.
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Meki River, Flood Plain, HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, HEC-FDA, DEM