FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado State University
researcher will design and build a test facility to simulate wave
damage on the scale of Hurricane Katrina.
CSU said Monday the Army Corps of Engineers awarded $1.7 million
to Chris Thornton, director of the university's Engineering
Research Center.
The project will build a wave-overtopping simulator at the
university's campus in land-locked Fort Collins. The facility will
be able to simulate levees made of soils in any region.
Thornton says his team will try to find away for levee designers
to take into account the forces generated by waves that over-top a
levee.
He says CSU was chosen because of its facilities and because its
researchers have experience in studying dams, spillways, erosion
and other topics.
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