{"title":"The July 1996 Saguenay Flood: geotechnical aspects","authors":"Serge Leroueil, Régis Bouchard, Denis Demers, Didier Perret","doi":"10.1139/cgj-2022-0692","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Extreme rainfall occurred in July 1996 over the Saguenay Region, some 200 km north of Quebec City. With about 1000 landslides, seven damaged dams, one dike failure, washed out road sections, tens of bridges damaged or destroyed, 1700 properties destroyed or damaged and several casualties, this event was one of the most important natural disasters in Canada. Detailed geotechnical investigations permitted better understanding of the soils involved, mainly sensitive clays and their superficial crust, including their behaviour in landslides, the erosion processes, impacts on infrastructure and sediment deposition.","PeriodicalId":9382,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Geotechnical Journal","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Canadian Geotechnical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1139/cgj-2022-0692","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, GEOLOGICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Extreme rainfall occurred in July 1996 over the Saguenay Region, some 200 km north of Quebec City. With about 1000 landslides, seven damaged dams, one dike failure, washed out road sections, tens of bridges damaged or destroyed, 1700 properties destroyed or damaged and several casualties, this event was one of the most important natural disasters in Canada. Detailed geotechnical investigations permitted better understanding of the soils involved, mainly sensitive clays and their superficial crust, including their behaviour in landslides, the erosion processes, impacts on infrastructure and sediment deposition.
期刊介绍:
The Canadian Geotechnical Journal features articles, notes, reviews, and discussions related to new developments in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, and applied sciences. The topics of papers written by researchers and engineers/scientists active in industry include soil and rock mechanics, material properties and fundamental behaviour, site characterization, foundations, excavations, tunnels, dams and embankments, slopes, landslides, geological and rock engineering, ground improvement, hydrogeology and contaminant hydrogeology, geochemistry, waste management, geosynthetics, offshore engineering, ice, frozen ground and northern engineering, risk and reliability applications, and physical and numerical modelling.
Contributions that have practical relevance are preferred, including case records. Purely theoretical contributions are not generally published unless they are on a topic of special interest (like unsaturated soil mechanics or cold regions geotechnics) or they have direct practical value.