Managing river floods
- Created by: Lammy456
- Created on: 30-04-15 16:16
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- Managing flooding
- Hard engineering
- embankment (levee)
- good points
- stops flood water from spreadig
- bad points
- expensive
- may burst
- good points
- Deepening the channel
- good points
- water flows away quickly
- bad points
- defers flooding
- unsightly
- good points
- Dam built upstream
- good point
- can regulate water flow
- bad point
- can burst
- Expensive
- good point
- relief channel
- good point
- takes over flow water
- bad points
- expensive
- disruptive and complex to build
- good point
- embankment (levee)
- Soft engineering
- Washland
- good points
- cheap
- water can go somewhere
- used as a habbitat
- good points
- Plant trees
- good point
- trees reduce the amount of water
- provides habbitats
- bad point
- land cannot be used for anything else
- good point
- flood warning system
- good point
- prepares people
- bad point
- difficult to give enough warning
- good point
- Planning
- good point
- building restricted to areas of low risk to flooding
- bad point
- may cause planning problems elsewhere
- good point
- Washland
- Hard engineering
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