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Economics & Social Analysis Branch
Overview
General Water Resources Section
Depth-Damage Relationships:***
Jefferson and Orleans Parishes
Lower Atchafalaya and Morganza Regions, La.
Donaldsonville to the
Gulf 
Navigation Support Center
Point of Contact
(***If you would like any of the following depth-damage relationship files in a format that can be directly imported
into the HEC-FDA program, please contact any of the following economists from the New Orleans District:
Toni Baldini,
Brian Maestri, or
Lisa Leonard.)
a. Conducts field investigations, collects, and analyzes data for computing damages due to individual flood occurrences and those losses resulting on an average annual basis. Evaluates flood control, hurricane protection, and major drainage benefits for completed, authorized and proposed projects. Prepares and establishes guidelines for pertinent reports in connection with individual
stream river basin, and coastal area studies. Conducts complex socioeconomic studies in the field of water resources development. Studies, evaluates, and develops new analytical techniques for application to Corps programs and projects.
b. Serves as a Corps-wide center of navigation expertise for MVN and other
districts. Makes navigation field investigations, collects pertinent data
related to tonnages, destinations, and transportation rates, projects future
waterway movements, and prepares and establishes guidelines for complete
economic analyses of all river and harbor projects, including those in the
reporting, planning, and design state, and those completed and in operation.
Conducts complex socioeconomic studies in the field of water resources
development. Studies, evaluates, and develops new analytical techniques for
application to Corps programs and projects.
c. Establishes guidelines for conducting regional and base economic studies.
Makes field investigations and collects historical data of record for pertinent
economic indicators to be used in economic base studies relating future needs
for water resources projects and land use. Identifies, measures, and forecasts
the social, physical, geographical, and other technological factors relevant to
past, present, and future development within the areas under study. Conducts
complex socioeconomic studies in the field of water resources development.
Studies, evaluates and develops new analytical techniques for application to
Corps programs and projects.
d. Conducts field investigations, collects, and analyzes data for determining
annual damages such as losses related to recreational and commercial fisheries,
flood control, and real property resulting from wetland loss and streambank,
beach, and shoreline erosion. Estimates benefits realized by completed,
authorized, and proposed protective works.
e. Identifies and measures flood control, drainage, navigation, and water
supply needs as related to various objectives, and the future output of
completed projects, for use in the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System.
Provides economic data to the Testifying Office for use in congressional
hearings.
f. Determines employment and other secondary benefits attributable to all water
resources projects. Makes cost allocations for multiple-purpose projects,
distributing project costs equitably among the purposes served. Makes
cost-sharing allocations to determine increments of Federal and non-Federal
participation and makes ability-to-pay and repayment determinations.
g. Appraises the needs and benefits of providing adequate water supplies for
various municipal, industrial, and agricultural purposes.
h. Acquires and provides historical flood information in support of flood plain
management programs.
i. Conducts field investigations and collects and analyzes data for determining
flood insurance rates for the Federal Insurance Administration.
j. Serves as COR for contracts for services of consultants or specialized
experts engaged in work in connection with economic and social analysis
activities.
k. Provides technical assistance on economic and social analysis matters to
other District elements as required. Serves as senior district technical expert
with respect to matters of economic and social analysis.
1. Prepares economic and socioeconomic data for inclusion in project
environmental impact statements, mitigation plans, as well as permit
assessments. Performs market and demand analyses, and other assessments to
ascertain public need for various private proposals in conjunction with the
regulatory process.
m. Conducts financial analyses and evaluations of local sponsors with regard to
ability to pay the non-Federal share of project construction costs.
a. Conducts field investigations, collects, and analyzes data for computing
damages due to individual flood occurrences and those losses resulting on an
average annual basis. Evaluates flood control, hurricane protection, and major
drainage benefits for completed, authorized and proposed projects. Prepares and
establishes guidelines for pertinent reports in connection with individual
stream river basin, and coastal area studies. Conducts complex socioeconomic
studies in the field of water resources development. Studies, evaluates, and
develops new analytical techniques for application to Corps programs and
projects.
b. Establishes guidelines for conduct of regional and base economic studies.
Makes field investigations and collects historical data of record for pertinent
economic indicators to be used in economic base studies relating future needs
for water resources projects and land use. Identifies, measures, and forecasts
the social, physical, geographical, and other technological factors relevant to
past, present, and future development within the areas under study. Conducts
complex socioeconomic studies in the field of water resources development.
Studies, evaluates and develops new analytical techniques for application to
Corps programs and projects.
c. Conducts field investigations, collects, and analyzes data for determining
annual damages such as losses related to recreational and commercial fisheries,
flood control, and real property resulting from wetland loss and streambank,
beach, and shoreline erosion. Estimates benefits realized by completed,
authorized, and proposed protective works.
d. Identifies and measures flood control, drainage, and water supply needs as
related to various objectives, and the future output of completed projects, for
use in the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System. Provides economic data
to the Testifying Office for use in congressional hearings.
e. Determines employment and other secondary benefits attributable to all water
resources project. Makes cost allocation for multiple-purpose projects,
distributing project costs equitably amount the purposes served. Makes
cost-sharing allocations to determine increments of Federal and non-Federal
participation and makes ability-to-pay and repayment determinations.
f. Appraises the needs and benefits of providing adequate water supplies for
various municipal, industrial, and agricultural purposes.
g. Acquires and provides historical flood information in support of flood plain
management programs.
h. Conducts field investigations and collects and analyzes data for determining
flood insurance rates for the Federal Insurance Administration.
i. Acts as COR for contracts for services of consultants or specialized experts
engaged in work, in connection with economic and social analysis activities.
j. Provides technical assistance on economic and social analysis matters to
other District elements as required.
k. Prepares economic and socioeconomic data for inclusion in project
environmental impact statements, mitigation plans, as well as permit
assessments. Performs market and demand analyses, and other assessments to
ascertain public need for various private proposals in conjunction with the
regulatory process.
1. Conducts financial analyses and evaluations of local sponsors with regard to
ability to pay the non-Federal share of project construction costs.
The General Water Resources Section frequently utilizes
statistical relationships between the depth of flooding to a
structure and the percentage of the structure's value that is
damaged. Also used are ratios of the value of contents for a
structure to the total value of that structure. These data are
used to compute expected flood damages over a given period of
analysis. Because considerable resources have been required to
develop highly specific relationships for a wide variety of
structures and flood characteristics, the results of specific
studies have generated considerable interest among government
agencies and academic institutions. For the benefit of
individual researchers and the general public, copies of the
full reports are provided in the links below:
Depth-Damage Relationships: Jefferson and Orleans Parishes
Depth-Damage Relationships: Lower Atchafalaya and Morganza
Regions, La.
a. Serves as a Corps-wide center of navigation expertise for MVN and other
districts. Makes navigation field investigations, collects pertinent data
related to tonnages, destinations. and transportation rates, projects future
waterway movements, and prepares and establishes guidelines for complete
economic analyses of all river and harbor projects, including those in the
reporting, planning, and design state, and those completed and in operation.
Conducts complex socioeconomic studies in the field of water resources
development. Studies, evaluates, and develops new analytical techniques for
application to Corps programs and projects.
b. Establishes guidelines for conduct of regional and base economic studies.
Makes field investigations and collects historical data of record for pertinent
economic indicators to be used in economic base studies relating future needs
for water resources projects and land use. Identifies, measures, and forecasts
the social, physical, geographical, and other technological factors relevant to
past, present, and future development within the areas under study. Conducts
complex socioeconomic studies in the field of water resource development.
Studies, evaluates and develops new analytical techniques for application to
Corps programs and projects.
c. Identifies and measures navigation needs as related to various objectives,
and the future output of completed projects, for use in the Planning,
Programming, and Budgeting System. Provides economic data to the Testifying
Office for use in congressional hearings.
d. Determines employment and other secondary benefits attributable to all water
resources project. Makes cost allocations for multiple-purpose projects,
distributing project costs equitably among the purposes served. Makes
cost-sharing allocations to determine increments of Federal and Non-Federal
participation and makes ability-to-pay and repayment determinations.
e. Acts as COR for contracts for services of consultants or specialized experts
engaged in work in connection with economic and social analysis activities.
f. Provides economic and socioeconomic data for inclusion in project
environmental impact statements, mitigation plans, as well as permit
assessments. Performs market and demand analyses, and other assessments to
ascertain public need for various private proposals in conjunction with the
regulatory process.
9. Conducts financial analyses and evaluations of local sponsors with regard to
ability to pay the non-Federal share of project construction costs.
Richard Manguno
CEMVN-PD-A
New Orleans,LA
504-862-1923
Richard.J.Manguno@usace.army.mil
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