Date of Award
Spring 2023
Document Type
Thesis
Publisher
Santa Clara : Santa Clara University, 2023.
Department
Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering
First Advisor
Hisham Said
Second Advisor
Sukhmander Singh
Abstract
Our names are Kelsi Rice and Wyatt Rich. We are Seniors at Santa Clara University and are majoring in Civil, Sustainable and Environmental Engineering. Within our senior year at Santa Clara, it is a requirement that we complete a Senior Design Project. Our Senior Design Project is fire hardening the City of South Lake Tahoe’s (City) utility lines. The last few months we have been analyzing the City's current utility infrastructure and the potential for new utility services to be implemented throughout the City. We have conducted an alternatives analysis to determine that the City of South Lake Tahoe is an ideal candidate for this project given the terrain of the City and the risk of public safety if a wildfire were to run rampant through the City. Our team believes, through our utilities analysis and the implementation of our proposed utility infrastructure, that we can provide the City with a solution for fire hardening its current utility infrastructure to promote life safety as well as property safety to its residents while minimizing cost.
Recommended Citation
Rice, Kelsi and Rich, Wyatt, "South Lake Tahoe Fire Resiliency Project" (2023). Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Senior Theses. 105.
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/ceng_senior/105