Recovering the Waiho – Emergency response and recovery of the Waiho River Bailey Bridge

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Waldin ◽  
Ben Baty
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Team Leader ◽  
Storm Event ◽  
Bridge Management ◽  
The West ◽  
Response Team ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
Management Contract ◽  
The Cost

<p>Waiho – (verb) (-ngia,-tia) <i>to let be, leave alone, put, place, ignore.</i></p><p>SH6 Waiho Bailey Bridge is located just south of Franz Josef township in the South Island of New Zealand and is a critical connection for the West Coast. The Bailey bridge was first constructed in 1990 and has since been raised and extended three times due to significant aggradation of the riverbed. During a massive storm event on March 26, 2019 the northern abutment and northern- most pier were washed out leading to collapse of several spans of the bridge. The cost caused by the loss of the bridge was estimated to be in the order of $2-3M per day. Consequently, there was intense pressure on Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency to restore access across the river.</p><p>As Team Leader and Deputy Team Leader of the West Coast Bridge Management Contract, Jeremy Waldin and Ben Baty led the $6.5M emergency recovery managing an emergency response team which worked across multiple organisations to recover this 170m long bridge in just 18 days.</p>

An Economic Analysis and Approach for Health Care Preparedness in a Substate Region

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 344-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoit Stryckman ◽  
Thomas L. Grace ◽  
Peter Schwarz ◽  
David Marcozzi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Catchment Area ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Response Team ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Positive Return

AbstractObjectiveTo demonstrate the application of economics to health care preparedness by estimating the financial return on investment in a substate regional emergency response team and to develop a financial model aimed at sustaining community-level disaster readiness.MethodsEconomic evaluation methods were applied to the experience of a regional Pennsylvania response capability. A cost-benefit analysis was performed by using information on funding of the response team and 17 real-world events the team responded to between 2008 and 2013. By use of the results of the cost-benefit analysis as well as information on the response team’s catchment area, a risk-based insurance-like membership model was built.ResultsThe cost-benefit analysis showed a positive return after 6 years of investment in the regional emergency response team. Financial modeling allowed for the calculation of premiums for 2 types of providers within the emergency response team’s catchment area: hospitals and long-term care facilities.ConclusionThe analysis indicated that preparedness activities have a positive return on their investment in this substate region. By applying economic principles, communities can estimate their return on investment to make better business decisions in an effort to increase the sustainability of emergency preparedness programs at the regional level. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2015;9:344–348)

scholarly journals Global detection of rainfall triggered landslide clusters

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne A. Benz ◽  
Philipp Blum
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Regional Analysis ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The West ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Himalaya

Abstract. An increasing awareness of the cost of landslides on the global economy and of the associated loss of human life, has led to the development of various global landslide databases. However, these databases typically report landslide events instead of individual landslides, i.e. a group of landslides with a common trigger and reported by media, citizens and/or government officials as a single unit. The latter results in significant cataloging and reporting biases. To counteract this biases, this study aims to identify clusters of landslide events that were triggered by the same rainfall event. Here the developed algorithm is applied to the Global Landslide Catalog (GLC) maintained by NASA. The results show that more than 40 % of all landslide events are connected to at least one other event, and that 14 % of all studied landslide events are actually part of a landslide cluster consisting of at least 10 events. However, in a more regional analysis this number ranges from 30 % for the West Coast of North America to 3 % in the Himalaya Region. The cluster with most landslide events in a day is located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with 108 events on 6th April 2010. In contrast, the longest running cluster was observed on the West Coast of North America with 132 events occurring in an area of over 120,000 km2 during 24 days in December 2015. Our study intends to enhance our understanding of landslide clustering and thus will assist in the development of improved, internationally streamlined mitigation strategies for rainfall related landslide clusters.

scholarly journals The Choice of Materials for the E39 Fjord Crossing Project

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
Simen Hellgren Holtberget ◽  
Xu Xiang ◽  
Cato Dørum ◽  
Johannes Veie ◽  
Arianna Minoretti
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Feasibility Studies ◽  
Suspension Bridges ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
The West ◽  
Environmental Loads ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Ship Collision ◽  
Floating Bridges ◽  
The Cost

Abstract In the studies for crossing the long and deep Norwegian fjords along the E39 road, on the west coast of Norway, some challenging structures have been evaluated. Some of them are known structures, like floating bridges, and some others are structures never built before, like suspension bridges on tension leg platforms and submerged floating tube bridges. In the development of the feasibility studies for these crossings, the choice of materials has played an important role. The materials influence not only the design and the cost, but also the behaviour of the structure towards the environmental loads and some particular loads as the ship collision. The article illustrates the different solutions proposed for the fjord crossings and discusses the influence in the choice of the material, with special regards to the type of concrete. The pros and cons of the application of the light weight concrete are discussed.

scholarly journals III. Meterological observations obtained by the use of kites off the west coast of Scotland, 1902

1904 ◽  
Vol 202 (346-358) ◽  
pp. 123-141 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Base Station ◽  
British Association ◽  
The West ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
The Cost

The investigation, of which the results are given in the following pages, was undertaken by a Committee of the Royal Meteorological Society appointed in the spring of 1901, with the co-operation of a Committee appointed by the British Association at Glasgow. Towards the cost of the experiments £75 was contributed by the Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society, £75 by the British Association, and £25 anonymously by a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. The remainder of the cost, amounting to £106, was defrayed by that Society. The Meteorological Council lent the instruments required for a base station at Crinan, and defrayed the cost of maintaining the station. The Council have afforded further assistance to the investigation by undertaking the tabulation of the curves and the preparation of the necessary diagrams. This work has been carried out in the Observatory branch of the Meteorological Office.

Eelgrass (Zostera marina) restoration on the west coast of Sweden using seeds

2016 ◽  
Vol 546 ◽  
pp. 31-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Infantes ◽  
L Eriander ◽  
PO Moksnes
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Zostera Marina ◽  
The West

Changes in soil quality following humping/hollowing and flipping of pakihi soils on the West Coast, South Island New Zealand

2007 ◽  
pp. 265-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.M. Thomas ◽  
M.H.Beare C.D. Ford ◽  
V. Rietveld
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Soil Quality ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Hot Water ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
The West ◽  
Organic Matter Quality ◽  
Pasture Production ◽  
Soil C

Humping/hollowing and flipping are land development practices widely used on the West Coast to overcome waterlogging constraints to pasture production. However, there is very limited information about how the resulting "new" soils function and how their properties change over time following these extreme modifications. We hypothesised that soil quality will improve in response to organic matter inputs from plants and excreta, which will in turn increase nutrient availability. We tested this hypothesis by quantifying the soil organic matter and nutrient content of soils at different stages of development after modification. We observed improvements in soil quality with increasing time following soil modification under both land development practices. Total soil C and N values were very low following flipping, but over 8 years these values had increased nearly five-fold. Other indicators of organic matter quality such as hot water extractable C (HWC) and anaerobically mineralisable N (AMN) showed similar increases. With large capital applications of superphosphate fertiliser to flipped soils in the first year and regular applications of maintenance fertiliser, Olsen P levels also increased from values

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