Boscastle Flood 2004
- Created by: Ellie Clutton
- Created on: 27-04-13 16:08
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- Effects and Responses to flood in a MEDC - Boscastle, August 2004
- Situated in the North of Cornwall in the South of England
- Causes
- Nature
- Heavy rain - 8 inches in 8 hours
- Impermeable granite rock
- Steep hills
- River Jordan and Valency meeting
- Humans
- Deforestation
- River channel blocked
- Nature
- Effects
- Economic
- 25 business properties destroyed
- Shop closures during repairs
- Social
- 58 houses destroyed
- Economic
- Responses
- Short term
- People put up in temporary accommodation
- Evacuation
- Rescue helicopters sent in and saved 150 people
- Sand bags put down
- People donated to Red Cross Appeal
- Sand bags put down
- People worked together
- Panic
- People put up in temporary accommodation
- Long term
- Debris and silt was cleared from buildings (1850 tonnes)
- Water, sewage systems and telephone lines restored
- Damaged roads and bridges restored
- River banks and flood walls raised
- Relief channel made bigger and deeper
- £4.5million scheme to improve flood defences
- Bypass channel dug to take excess flood water
- "Wateroverflow pipes"
- 1000 trees planted (afforestation)
- "Wateroverflow pipes"
- Short term
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