[5269] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: generators etc...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Watt)
Sun Oct 13 15:15:17 1996
From: James Watt <james@ca.newbridge.com>
To: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton)
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 15:05:22 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: zachary@zachs.place.org, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961012220947.23111C-100000@netrail.net> from "Nathan Stratton" at Oct 12, 96 10:16:32 pm
Nathan Stratton writes:
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|>Don't site buildings where there have been floods in the past 500 years
|>and don't site buildings downstream from dams. If a waterproof buildingis
|>built in a flood area, make sure that snorkles rise above the 500 year
|>flood level.
|
|This is a very basic thing and all of us should try to do this.
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Well... Talking to a hydrologist is definitely a good thing (one I know
has a great Hagar cartoon with someone explaining the "benefits" of
living near a river :->) but I'm not sure the "500 year flood" is the
right answer... Even if it is, you need to worry about "jumps" in the
time series - usually human-induced, e.g. building new dams, diversions,
parking lots, suburbs, etc.
Regards,
-james
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