Incorporating the effects of upstream ice jam releases in the prediction of flood levels in the Hay River delta, Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering
• Main Authors: De Coste, Michael, She, Yuntong, Blackburn, Julia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2017
• Subjects: Canada; Great Slave Lake; Hay River; Northwest Territories
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjce-2017-0123; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/cjce-2017-0123; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjce-2017-0123

The town of Hay River, located in the Northwest Territories, Canada, is vulnerable to ice jam flooding occurring in the adjacent Hay River delta. The most extreme flooding events have occurred when ice jams in the channels of the delta were pushed downstream towards the mouth at Great Slave Lake. Th...