Credit: 10 PDH Hours
Course Fee: $90.00
97 pages
This course pertains to projects that involve modifications of natural stream channels to reduce damages due to flooding, bed scour, or bank erosion. The emphasis of this manual is on channels not open to commercial navigation. Channel modifications for flood and erosion control include clearing and snagging; channel straightening; channel enlargement; stream bank protection; channel 1 lining; and construction of grade control structures, culverts, levees, and floodwalls. This manual covers some of the principal environmental factors that should be considered in projects that involve stream channel modification, as well as opportunities for incorporating environmental features for attaining environmental quality objectives.
By the end of this course the participants will have guidance for incorporating environmental considerations in the planning, engineering, design, and construction of flood control channels, levees, and associated structures.
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Course Author: US Army Corp of Engineers
This course comes with a multiple-choice quiz. You can view the quiz and take the quiz if you are logged in your account. You can take the quiz for this online PDH course as many times until passed. The passing grade is 70% and above. After you pass the quiz simply follow the page, to pay for the course and print your certificate instantly. A copy of the certificate and receipt for this course will always be in your account.
This online PDH course can also be used as a continuing education course for the following.