Flood Plain Mapping and Hazard Assessment of Muga River by Using ArcGIS and HEC-RAS Model Upper Blue Nile Ethiopia

Solomon Bogale Aynalem

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Flood Plain Mapping and Hazard Assessment of Muga River by Using ArcGIS and HEC-RAS Model Upper Blue Nile Ethiopia

Solomon Bogale Aynalem

Published in Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (Volume 5, Issue 4)

Received: 16 September 2020 Accepted: 29 September 2020 Published: 23 November 2020

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Flood happens repeatedly and is a common phenomenon in Ethiopia causing a lot of losses to human lives as well as damage to property. The majority of flood disasters’ victims are people living in and nearby stretch of floodplains. It results direct or indirect loss of agricultural productivity, infrastructure, and disruption of transportation access and services. The objective of this study was to analyze flood inundation area mapping and Hazard Assessment of Muga River. Flood generating factors, i.e. slope, elevation, rainfall, drainage density, land use, and soil type were rated and combined to delineate flood hazard zones using a multi-criteria evaluation technique in an ArcGIS environment. The flooded areas along the Muga River have been mapped based on highest flows for different return periods using the HEC-RAS model, ArcGIS for spatial data processing and HEC-GeoRAS for interfacing between HEC-RAS and ArcGIS. The areas along the Muga River simulated to be inundated for 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 years return periods. The flooded areas along the Muga River are 18 km2, 21 km², 26 km², 34 km² and 43 km² for 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 year return periods, respectively. Proper land use management and afforestation, is significant to reduce the adverse effects of flooding particularly in the low-lying flood prone areas. The result of this study will helps the concerned bodies to formulate develop strategies according to the available flood plain mapping and hazard to the area.

Published in	Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (Volume 5, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.larp.20200504.13
Page(s)	74-85
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Muga River, ArcGIS, HEC_RAS, HEC_GeoRAS

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Solomon Bogale Aynalem. Flood Plain Mapping and Hazard Assessment of Muga River by Using ArcGIS and HEC-RAS Model Upper Blue Nile Ethiopia. Landsc. Archit. Reg. Plan. 2020, 5(4), 74-85. doi: 10.11648/j.larp.20200504.13

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