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RAPID Collection of Water Level, Scour, and Structural Damage Data Due to Extreme Storm Surge

RAPID Collection of Water Level, Scour, and Structural Damage Data Due to Extreme Storm Surge. Thomas O. Herrington, Jon K. Miller Omar Lopez, Katlin Walling, Anthony Eble. Superstorm Sandy. Highest water level recorded at the Battery Largest wave measured off NJ coast (44025)

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RAPID Collection of Water Level, Scour, and Structural Damage Data Due to Extreme Storm Surge

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  1. RAPID Collection of Water Level, Scour, and Structural Damage Data Due to Extreme Storm Surge Thomas O. Herrington, Jon K. Miller Omar Lopez, Katlin Walling, Anthony Eble

  2. Superstorm Sandy Highest water level recorded at the Battery Largest wave measured off NJ coast (44025) Lowest cp for landfalling NE hurricane H>12’ over 1.4x106 mi2 (Area 1/2 Continental US)

  3. Community Profiles • Sea Girt • Wide beach/dune • High elevation • Bay Head • Stable beach/dune with groin field • Seawall protecting 75% • Mantoloking • Vulnerable • No structures

  4. Field Equipment • Initial Pass • Damage Assessment Form • Handheld GPS • GPS Enabled Camera • Measuring Tape • Second Pass • Above + • RTK GPS

  5. Damage Assessment Form Modified from Freidland et al. (2008)

  6. Sample Sketch

  7. Microsoft Access Electronic Form (Structures)

  8. Microsoft Access Electronic Form (Watermarks)

  9. GIS Data Presentation

  10. In Total… Over 500 Structural Evaluations Over 150 Watermarks Over one dozen scour depressions

  11. Details make the difference..

  12. Details make the difference…

  13. Questions? For more info, contact: Jon K. Miller (jmiller@stevens.edu) Thomas Herrington (therring@stevens.edu) The work discussed herein was supported by the National Science Foundation through award #1318169

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