Flooding
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- Created on: 11-04-16 18:39
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- Flooding
- Causes of flooding
- Human Factors
- deforestation
- Drainage
- Farming
- Settlement building
- Impermeable surfaces
- Physical Factors
- Rock type
- Relief
- Vegetation
- Height
- Climate
- Human Factors
- Flood Abatement
- Afforestation
- Methods to stop flooding happening in the first place
- Dune preservation
- Preserving mangroves
- Short term responses
- Short term aid
- Save property and possessions
- Food, fresh water, medicine
- Rescue people and animals
- Long term management
- Early warnings and education
- reduces the impacts of floods
- Flood embankments
- Raise height of river banks
- Channel straightening
- Increases flow velocity
- Sluice Gate
- Gates closed during flood, water stored on floodplain
- Flood relief channels
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- Dams and resevoirs
- Stores flood water and gradually releases it
- Early warnings and education
- Causes of flooding
- Affects surface run off
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