Levee Vegetation Research Symposium 2012

2012 Symposium Overview

Since the 2007 Symposium, the US Army Corps of Engineers invested in further research by its Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) to study the effects of woody vegetation on the performance of earthen levees. Simultaneously, the California Roundtable for Central Valley Flood Management (formerly the California Levees Roundtable) formed the California Levee Vegetation Research Program to research gaps in scientific knowledge not addressed by the ERDC studies. Other relevant research on the effects of vegetation on levee integrity continues nationally and internationally.

On August 28-30, 2012, a second Levee Vegetation Research Symposium will be held in Sacramento to take stock of what as been learned over the past five years.

This symposium will bring researchers and stakeholders together to present the latest findings and discuss topics that will include:

Tree root architecture in levees

Slurry cut-off walls and roots

Slope stability and tree roots

Effects of roots on soil cohesion

Tree windthrow and levees

Effects of burrowing mammals

International perspectives of vegetation
and levees

High-resolution 3D tree root and mammal burrow imaging

Modeling/simulation for levee trees

Levee seepage analysis

Engineered or design solutions

How science is incorporated into policy decision making

Forensics of California levee failures

To subscribe to the email list for Symposium updates or for any questions, please contact us at LeveeVeg.2012@SacCounty.net.

Please feel free to forward the Save the Date announcement to other individuals/groups that would be interested in the symposium. Thank you and we hope to see you in August!