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Values, Goals, Objectives, and Measure of Effectiveness in

Flood Protection System

VALUES
Flood protection system will be needed generally to provide and manage the protection of
people and their properties including land from flooding, river erosion, and land erosion.
Furthermore, it also needed to prevent the urban in identified areas from damage caused by
flood and erosion, and also to prevent damage on the environment within and beyond urban
area. In the end, the ultimate value for flood protection system is to achieve people survival
as the protection from flood to the people and environment will help the people to have more
chance in living.

GOALS
In order for the people and environment to obtain full protection from flooding, there are
some goals that have to be fulfilled, which are:

Improve the quality of flood control system, including the existing infrastructure (like
dykes, dam) and the land drainage system across the urban.

Utilising the most cost effective, long-term management options using natural asset to
fully prevent flooding risk. The natural assets being discussed are the river within urban
area which used to accommodate the run-off flow from the urban; and the natural
catchment area within and beyond urban area which play important role in reduce the
run-off flow within the urban.

Provide investigatory service to mitigate flood risk, including investigation on climate and
land use changes in within and beyond urban area.

OBJECTIVES
To protect land, buildings, and infrastructure from flooding, there are some main objectives
on flood protection system, which are:

Improve land drainage system, including main drainage system, road and houses
drainage system, sewage system, and so on. Main drainage system will receive water
from sub drainage system (road and house drainage system) and transport it to an
outfall (river or stream). The drainage system must be improved so that each of drainage
can meet the water flood elevation demand.

Improve existing infrastructure of flood protection, this include improving the


infrastructure of flood infrastructure which already constructed such as dykes. Each city
definitely has its own flood protection system. But, the flood protection infrastructure can
be already old or not performance well. Improve its quality will provide great help in
creating protection from the flood.

Improve and preserve natural catchment area. The catchment area, within and beyond
urban area, have important role to reduce the run-off flow or stormwater in the urban
area. The natural catchment area within the urban include park, city garden, city forest,
permeable pavement, and all the green area that allow the rainwater to percolate into the
ground. Natural catchment area beyond urban area will be the forest and all green area
around the urban. If the catchment area is too few, then the water will not have chance to
infiltrate into the soil. The excess water then becomes run-off that flow on the city
surfaces (like road). If this continued, the drainage system will not have enough capacity
to receive the run-off and the flooding will occurs.

Improve river asset management. This is achieved by monitoring changes to river/stream


channels which could affect the community and by providing advice on preventative
maintenance for river/stream channel integrity. River monitoring will provides flood
warnings to the community for specified rivers in a timely and effective manner. The
activities also include maintenance the river channel and protect the river from erosion.
Maintained the river is being conducted to increase river capacity of accommodate the
run-off flow from urban area.

Improve the investigation of the impact of climate change and land use. Climate change
has already had observable effects on the environment. The potential effects of climate
change include longer periods of drought or rainy session in some regions. The
investigation will be needed to foresee the potency of climate change in increasing flood
risk. Land use change also an important issues regarding the flood risk. For example, the
land use change at the land along the river (at river shoulder). The land along the river
should be free from any building in purpose to preserve the river. But, in the fact many
citizen build their home near the river, and also throw their waste into the river. It
absolutely dangerous as it can increase the flood risk. Further investigation at other land
use change is needed to reduce the urban risk for having flood.

MEASURE OF EFFECTIVENESS
To make sure the objectives of flood control system already achieved, there are some
measurements that can be taken, which is:

Elevation of standing water on the surface.


The high of standing water can measure of whether the flood protection infrastructure
(the land drainage and existing infrastructure) already performance well or not. The
improvement of flood protection infrastructure will led to reduction of run-off and the high
of standing water in the surfaces will be lower.

Run-off flow per hour on the surface.


The performance of natural catchment area regarding the water percolation will be
measured with the run-off debit per hour that flow on the urban surfaces. If the natural
catchment area is improved enough, then the run-off debit absolutely will reduce.

Flood water elevations for the river.


Improvement of the river is done for increasing the river capacity in receiving run-off flow
from urban area. The measurement in that objective is the flood water elevation on the
river. If the capacity of the river is larger, then the elevation of flood water in the river will
be lower.

Percent of flood risk at rainy season


To achieve full protection from flood, the investigation of climate and land use change is
being improved as to knowing its potency in increasing flood risk. The percent of flood
risk at rainy session will indicate whether the climate and land use change play an
important role or not regarding flood risk; and also will measure if the investigation
already improved effectively or not.

Diagram of Values, Goals, Objectives, and Measure of Effectiveness in Flood Protection System

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