Levees related documents

The International Levee Handbook
(Original English Version)

French Version

A report on Failure paths (or failure scenarios) for levees

Deliverable documents from the FloodProBE European Research project

The FloodProBE report on transitions (not available on the FloodProBE web site)

• Guidelines for the justification of embankment dams and levees (CFBR document, in French at the beginning, in English starting page 135)

• Guidelines for the justification of the stability of gravity dams (CFBR document, applicable with some adaptation to levees of gravity type, in French at the beginning, in English starting page 121)

• Methods and techniques for reinforcing and repairing protection levees (CFBR document, in French only at the moment, English traslation in progress)

Spillways on river levees 

Geophysical and geotechnical methods for diagnosing flood protection dikes – Guide for implementation and interpretation

Surveillance, maintenance and diagnosis of flood protection dikes – A practical handbook for owners and operators

Book of abstracts of the French Conference “Digues 2019”.

Includes English abstracts and DOI links to the full text papers (these are in French).

• Levee Safety Program Guidance (2021)
• Levee Design Manual Update (2022, Draft)
• Levee Portfolio Report (2018)

See : https://www.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Levee-Safety-Program/

National guidance for practitioners in the UK and Ireland on the design of flood embankments to EN 1997 Eurocode 7: Geotechnical design

Fundamentals of Flood Protection, a Dutch document