Estimating the change in the rational runoff coefficient through history in Jefferson County, Texas

Spatial Information Research - Tập 31 - Trang 669-684 - 2023
Nayana Muppavarapu1, Liv Haselbach1
1Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Lamar University, Beaumont, USA

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Jefferson County in Texas has experienced devastating storms in recent years resulting in billions of dollars in damages. The county has gone through temporal milestones in terms of population growth and industrial development. Many studies have shown that urban development increases the risk of flooding by decreasing the soil infiltration capacity. The current study focuses on estimating the extent to which the urban development in the county has led to increased imperviousness using a combination of historical and current spatial data. Rational runoff coefficients of the County were estimated and compared at three different times over a span of 120 years. A land survey map for 1898, an aerial imagery map for 1966 and a land parcel map for 2019 were obtained from various sources. The three maps available, each in different format, were analyzed to determine the land use and land cover type for the respective years. The runoff coefficient increased by 21% from 1898 to 1966 and remained the same from 1966 till 2019. The estimates are in correlation with industrial and population growth patterns of the county. These preliminary spatial analyses are useful in estimating the contributions of recent major flooding from overall development, or if they may be more impacted from other factors such as changes in weather patterns.

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