Physical Geography- Water on the land - Boscastle Floods 2004
- Created by: sofiaw
- Created on: 05-03-14 20:35
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- Boscastle
- Causes
- 6 weeks of rainfall in one morning
- Built on a floodplain
- In between a V-shaped valley - lots of surface runoff
- Lots of deforestation - trees chopped down - little infiltration
- Effects
- Homes damaged
- Bridge destroyed
- People left homeless
- Personal belongings lost
- Cost of damage was £15 million
- 70-80 cars washed away
- Vegetation uprooted
- Responses
- 120 people airlifted to safety
- 7 helicopters to airlift people out
- Telephone warning system set up
- New sewage works
- River channel made deeper and wider
- Flood walls built
- Wall built around car park
- Storm drains built
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