High Water Elevations on the Vermilion River During the Flood of August 2016

Abstract: Flooding from locally heavy rainfall in the Vermilion River Basin of Louisiana in August of 2016 caused extensive property damage. Following the flood, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) surveyed high water marks in areas across South Louisiana which experienced flooding. This paper presents and discusses analyses of those high water data from the Vermilion River Basin, and provides a number of conclusions.

Acknowledgements: The author gratefully acknowledges the USGS for making available all flood data presented andused here. These data were either downloaded through USGS web sites or taken from USGSreports. The author is, however, solely responsible for all analyses, discussion, conclusions, anderrors presented in this paper.

Citation: Waldon, Michael G. (2018) High Water Elevations on the Vermilion River During the Flood of August 2016. Working paper published February 2018 on ResearchGate.net

URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323108783_High_Water_Elevations_on_the_Vermilion_River_During_the_Flood_of_August_2016