Throw Away Your Crystal Ball: A Stress Testing Approach to Infrastructure Planning Under Climate Change Uncertainty
Civil Engineers in the City of Portland, Oregon relate how they used data and customized design storms to stress-test the city's stormwater sewer system.
Story Credit:
Nicholas McCullar and Nishant Parulekar, Civil Engineers, Bureau of Environmental Services, City of Portland, Oregon.
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The skyline of Portland, Oregon looking west from the Hawthorne Bridge. Photo by Eric Baetscher. Used via a Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 2.5) <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en> via Wikimedia Commons. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portland_panorama3.jpg>.
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23 April 2024 - 9:53am
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