Factors influencing resilience in flood response, recovery, and prevention: Case study of the Souris River Valley, Minot, North Dakota.

摘要

Adequate future flood prevention along the Souris River is a necessity for the residents in the city of Minot, North Dakota. While roughly a quarter of the city's residents and homes were directly affected by a catastrophic June, 2011 flood, the rest of the city's residents, as well as North Dakota state and federal tax payers were indirectly affected. First, this thesis project uses ArcGIS software to map the areas of Minot, North Dakota affected by the June, 2011 flood. Second, this project tracks the progress of clean-up, the construction of new, permanent flood protection structures such as dams and levees, and the deployment and implementation of new and additional sensors, such as stream gauges, to give the city of Minot and its residents earlier warning when the next flood comes. Third, this thesis models the effectiveness of newly proposed flood control measures, to be put in place in the city of Minot and Ward County using ArcGIS modeling, to see how well the city could be protected should the 100-year flood conditions that occurred in June 2011 occur again.