New projects

The Urban Flood Demonstration Program has recently funded a series of projects addressing a range of issues and problems, predominantly for the Las Vegas Wash, or in the area of Las Vegas.

Project Summaries: Las Vegas Wash

• Geomorphic Analysis of Alluvial Fans: Assessing Spatial Variation in Surface Hydrology and its Effects on Past Flood Events
• Methods Assessment and Improvement of Infiltration Analyses to Support Estimates of Recharge and Initial Abstraction
• Review Supercritical Flood Channel Design Guidance
• Investigate Sediment Transport Mechanisms in the Las Vegas Wash
• Assessing Impact of Flood and Sediment Control Activities on Nutrients in Arid and Semi-arid Regions: Phosphorous and Grade Control Structures
• Development of Design Guidance for Streambank Stabilization and Grade Control Structures in the Arid and Semi-arid Stream Systems of the Southwest U.S.

Project Summaries: Other

• Demonstrating Innovative River Restoration Assessment Technologies: McCarran Ranch, Truckee River, Nevada
• Development, testing, and evaluation of high resolution (time and space) quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPF) in Las Vegas, Nevada
• Combined Effects of Temperature and Soils on Infiltration (Grant 2004)

Project Summaries: Data-related

• Facilitating Data Fusion within the Urban Flood Demonstration Program
• Technology Transfer