Levees related documents

The International Levee Handbook

ILH Front  

 

The International Levee Handbook
(Original English Version)
 

 

 

French Version

FloodProBE

floodprobe

documents from the FloodProBE European Research project

French Committee (CFBR) levees related documents

To download one of these CFBR documents, and many more, click HERE and download the selected document from the list.

cfbr-remblai  

 

 

  • 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)

INRAE documents

INRAE (formerly Irstea, formerly Cemagref) documents in English – (many more exist but only in French language)

 

 

 

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).

Others

ciria-eurocode-flood-embankments  

 

 

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
Program and  abstracts of the  seminar “ICOLD Bulletin 164: Internal Erosion Workshop” during the ICOLD 2019 Ottawa meeting