The anthropogenic geomorphology approach and hydrologicalhydraulic modelling applied in stream Três Pontes basin (São Paulo) to determine peak flow and flood vulnerability

Author(s)

Yuri Veneziani

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2014-06-27

Examining board members

Cleide Rodrigues; Arisvaldo Vieira Mello Júnior; Archimedes Perez Filho

• Advisor: Cleide Rodrigues

Abstract

The current and persistent flooding scenarios in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, and their consequences on its space and life, point out to the complexity of this issue. The recurrence of flooding suggests that, even though policies of control, ordering and mitigation were adopted, its measures demonstrated not to be enough, associated with limitations of the methodologies and hydrological and hydraulic forecast models. This research is related to this last proposition, testing and applying ways in which the approaches of geomorphology, hydrology and hydraulics, can be integrated. Therefore, the study aims to analyze the temporal and spatial variability of hydrologic and hydraulic simulations results and to compare them with the mappings obtained by Anthropogenic Geomorphology from evolutionary geomorphological mapping at the stream Três Pontes basin, in order to identify the dialogues and potentials of integration between these methodologies. Firstly, airphotos and satellite images were interpreted and the original morphologies (1962) and anthropogenic forms (2011) reconstructed and mapped, from which disturbance maps were produced considering different susceptibilities to flooding and concentration of discharges. Afterwards, hydrological models (Ven Te Chow-SCS and Unit Hydrograph-SCS using ABC6 ) and hydraulic models (using HEC-RAS ) were applied considering the same scenarios previously reconstituted and, as a result, the increase on peak discharge and of flooding areas, between 1962 e 2011, were determined for different recurrence intervals. When compared, the boundaries of flooded areas obtained through the hydraulic modeling and the flood susceptibility cartography, demonstrated the compatibilities between the results. Limitations of some parameters, coefficients and assumptions related to both methodologies were identified and discussed, as well as, the potential of integration between the two. As a whole, the obtained results contribute to the urban hydrological and geomorphological knowledge, especially in the studied area, and constitute an interdisciplinary effort to approximate two fundamental territorial planning fields. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/16396-5 - THE ANTHROPOGENIC GEOMORPHOLOGY APPROACH COMBINED TO HYDROLOGICAL METHODS VEN TE CHOW - SCS TO DETERMINE PEAKS FLOWS AND VULNERABILITY OF A URBAN WATERSHED TO FLOODS IN THE METROPOLITAN REGION OF SAO PAULO
• Grantee: Yuri Veneziani
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master