Smart Adaptation to Flooding in Urban Areas
Sampei Yamashita, Ryoichi Watanabe, Yukihiro Shimatani
Laboratory of Hydrosphere Sutainability Engineering
Frequent inundation has become a serious problem in urban areas all over the world in recent years. It is necessary to improve rainwater retention and infiltration in the urban watershed. The purpose of this study is to report how private rainwater-retention/harvesting tools/facilities can be spread gradually but steadily in the city, as a smart way to responding to urban flood-disaster risks. Rainwater harvesting tanks (0.2 m3) were installed intensively in 2010 and a rainwater harvesting house (42 m3) was constructed in 2012 in the city of Fukuoka, Japan after the city experienced a flood disaster in 2009. The former enhanced users' daily preparedness for emergency, and the latter inspired construction of a rainwater-harvesting housing complex (108m3) in an adjacent city. An elementary school is under construction from November of 2014 by another, nearby municipality inspired by these facilities. The school premises are located on the land reclaimed from an old irrigation pond. Thus the school needs to be adapted to this condition. 3,800 m3 of rainwater can be retained within the school premises. The water is used to flush the toilet and water flowers to be grown by pupils. The amounts of retention and discharge will be monitored, and the data will be utilized for science education. In big cities, people tend to depend too much on the top-down, mega-system involving dredging rivers, strengthening drainage systems, constructing flood walls, etc., which invites more man-made, impervious surfaces in urban areas. Bottom-up, individual and/or collaborative approaches should be adopted in order to achieve multiple purposes of preventing/mitigating disasters, preserving/conserving ecosystems and nurturing/rebuilding communities in the city.
Procedia Engineering
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.449
International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering and Construction, ICSDEC 2015 - Chicago, United States
10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.449
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Ponds Engineering & Materials Science
Dredging Engineering & Materials Science
Watersheds Engineering & Materials Science
Irrigation Engineering & Materials Science
Infiltration Engineering & Materials Science
Ecosystems Engineering & Materials Science
Water Engineering & Materials Science
Yamashita, S., Watanabe, R., & Shimatani, Y. (2015). Smart Adaptation to Flooding in Urban Areas. Procedia Engineering, 118, 1096-1103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.449
Smart Adaptation to Flooding in Urban Areas. / Yamashita, Sampei; Watanabe, Ryoichi; Shimatani, Yukihiro.
In: Procedia Engineering, Vol. 118, 2015, p. 1096-1103.
Yamashita, S, Watanabe, R & Shimatani, Y 2015, 'Smart Adaptation to Flooding in Urban Areas', Procedia Engineering, vol. 118, pp. 1096-1103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.449
Yamashita S, Watanabe R, Shimatani Y. Smart Adaptation to Flooding in Urban Areas. Procedia Engineering. 2015;118:1096-1103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.449
Yamashita, Sampei ; Watanabe, Ryoichi ; Shimatani, Yukihiro. / Smart Adaptation to Flooding in Urban Areas. In: Procedia Engineering. 2015 ; Vol. 118. pp. 1096-1103.
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