Boscastle CASE STUDY
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- Created on: 05-04-14 15:27
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- CASE STUDY: Boscastle flood
- Physical Causes
- V-shape Valley, Funnel for water.
- Small catchment
- Impermeable rock
- Heavy rainfall
- Surface run-off- reaches rivers quickly
- Extremely wet summer
- Ground was already saturated
- Thundery clouds had developed
- Clouds stayed stationary over Cornwall
- Human Causes
- Flood risk increased by amount of buildings alongside river
- Small bridge
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- Lack of flood control system
- Drainage system and sweers were old and had small capacity
- Primary effects
- Roads blocked by floodwater
- emergency service access difficult
- Property was destroyed by trees and vehicles
- vehicles and trees ended up on the beach
- People were trapped in buildings
- Risk of hypothermia and being swept away
- People were left homeless
- Emergency accommodation set up
- Tourists unable to return to their accomodation
- Burst sewer made boscastle inaccessible for health and safety
- Roads blocked by floodwater
- Secondary Effects
- Flood water damaged properties
- possessions were lost
- Thousands of pounds worth of damage
- Repairs were time consuming and costly
- some buildings beyond repair
- Town was closed after flood
- loss of revenue
- small businesses could go out of business
- Flood water damaged properties
- Physical Causes
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