Abingdon
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- Created on: 26-04-15 16:21
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- Defences
- Abingdon
- Advantages
- Land use management means the impact of flooding is receded, provides recreational opportunities
- Vegetation provides habitats
- Due to soakaways pollutants are filtered by the time water reaches the channel
- Requires less money / time to maintain. Lower environmental impact
- 2008 floods did less damage than previous years: minimal cost, no lives lost and only a few injuries.
- Disadvantages
- Land use management can't be used in already urbanised areas
- Planting riparian buffers means less land is available for farming
- Alteration of urban surfaces is usually expensive
- Flash floods may happen too fast for flood warnings
- People may not have access to the internet warnings / may ignore them if they've been wrong in the past
- Advantages
- Low-value Land allowed to flood, e.g. Tilsley Park sports ground
- Planning restrictions, e.g. houses built on Ricker Ock flood plain must have improved drainage systems
- Tesco had to add soak ways and permeable tarmac
- Environmental agency's Local flood warning plan provides a 24 hour flood line.
- Improvementsmade to riparian buffers
- Voluntary flood wardens
- Abingdon
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