Flood Hazard and Risk Area Identification: A Case of Gelana River Watershed, Southern Ethiopia
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Abstract This study specifies flood hazard areas as well as flood risk areas of Gelana River Watershed. It specifically aims to investigate factors that create good conditions for flood hazard, generate flood hazard and risk areas from environmental and socio-economic factors using integration of Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) and Geospatial Techniques. The research was conducted using quantitative research approach. Therefore, slope, elevation, soil type, land use land cover (LULC), and drainage density were the environmental factors developed for the generation of flood hazard. In addition, flood hazard, LULC and population data factors were developed to generate flood risk areas of Gelana river watershed. As the result, flood hazard map reveals 64.68, 1769.48, 1345.38, 244.37, 10.73 square kilometers of Gelana river watershed, is subjected to very high, high, moderate, low and very low flood hazardous respectively. It is revealed that 46.52% of the watershed has very high to high flood risk. The rest 47.20%, 6.24%, and 0.05% of the study area has medium, low and very low flood risk respectively. Therefore, the area incorporated under very high and high hazardous and risk areas are located around the Main River and lower course of the watershed. Generally, to overcome the problem, different concerned bodies of governmental offices and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) should give attention especially for those areas put under very high and high hazardous and risk areas of the watershed.
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