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Journal Article
Channel aggradation triggered by dam failure amplifies the damage of outburst flood
2023
Overview
Outburst floods generated by dam breaches associated with debris flow may have long-lasting effects on the formation and development landscape and the safety of human beings, increasing the difficulty of disaster prevention and mitigation. However, little was considered about channel aggradation contributing downstream damage of outburst flood. Therefore, we investigated a debris flow dam’s breaching and flooding process triggered by a 50-year heavy rainfall occurring on 17th June 2020 in Danba, China. The 6-m dam and a concomitant 1.04 × 106 m3 barrier lake were formed by a tributary debris flow blocking the Xiaojin river. We used the dam breach overtopping and two-dimensional hydrodynamic models to simulate the whole process. The dam breach event persisted for 4.5 h with an outburst flood peak discharge of 823.5 m3/s, equal to a 20-year flood. It was noted that numerous sediments of approximately 5 × 106 m3 were transported to the downstream channel, elevating the main channel bed and the terrace by 10–15 m and 2–5 m, respectively. Averaged transportation efficiency of an outburst flood is 1269.73 times greater than a 20-year seasonal flood. We simulated representative seasonal floods and outburst floods based on the pre-beach river geometry, which shows that previous channel capacity is sufficient to convey seasonal floods and the outburst flood. However, the outburst flood could easily submerge terraces and living land using after-breach geometry. Due to river aggradation lifting river elevation, deposited riverbed promotes sediment and flood evolute to living land, resulting in amplified damage. Additionally, we collected 59 dam breaches and demonstrated that local riverbed slopes could increase more than 100 times. During dam breaches, the sharp slope plays a key role in high sediment transportation efficiency. This study can promote understanding the formation and development of channel aggradation triggered by outburst flood and provide more reasonable considerations for disaster prevention and mitigation triggered by outburst flood hazard chain.
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