Proposed Committee Council Name: TC on Mitigating Floods/Droughts with Modern Technology

Parent Committee/Council:

Committee on Surface Water Hydrology/Watershed Council

Type of Committee: Standing Committee or Task Committee

Task Committee

Committee Purpose (for publication in ASCE Official Register)

To develop goals and guide actions for ASCE's role in floods and droughts mitigation with modern technologies.

Committee Objectives (Publication or other end product)

1. To identify flood and drought related disasters

2. To To quantify damages resulting from flood and droughtt disasters.

3. To evaluate state-of-the-art of the technologies available disaster mitigation.

4. To recommend future actions and research needed.

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Committee Officers (All must be EWRI Members)

Chair Name: Dr. Shou-shan Fan

Address : 20427 Aspenwood Lane, Gaithersburg, MD 20886

EWRI ID# : 126109

Home Phone: 301-869-1883

Work Phone 301-869-1883

Preferred E-mail Address ssfan@erols.com

Preferred Fax Number 301-869-1883

Vice Chair Name: Dr. Ted Engman

Address 4020 David Lane, Alexandria, VA 22311

EWRI ID# 126017

Home Phone 703--998-9155

Work Phone

Preferred E-mail Address : ljrete@msn.com

Preferred Fax Number

Secretary Name Dr. K. K. Lee

Address 9431 North Sleepy Hollow Lane, Milwaukee, WI 53217

EWRI ID# 144699

Home Phone

Work Phone 414-229-4377

Preferred E-mail Address kklee@csd.uwm.edu

Preferred Fax Number 414-229-6958

Attach list of other committee members, if known (non-officers need not be EWRI members): Dr. Donald Wilhite, Dr. S. P. Simonovic, Dr. Zhida Song-James, Dr. Baxter Vieux, Dr. H. T. Shen, Dr. Douglas James.

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Please justify how this committee fulfills the mission and focus of the EWRI:

Modern technologies play an important role in mitigating floods and droughts

Does this committee functionally overlap with other EWRI committees? No

If yes, explain

If yes, give names of people contacted and explain nature of contacts that ensure efforts are not duplicated:

Show milestone dates for completion of planned committee activities. Use extra pages if necessary:

May 20-24, 2001: Annual meeting : Orlando, FL,

September 30, 2001: Submitting closure report

Show funding requirement for planned committee activities. Use extra pages if necessary.

(Subcommittees are not funded and may omit this section)

Travel for Annual Meeting: $2,000

Preparing a manograph: $10,000

Person preparing this proposal:

Name: Dr. Shou-shan Fan

Date: August 15, 2000 Signature:

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