Rivers
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- Created on: 23-04-15 09:39
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- Rivers
- Flooding
- Boscastle Flood
- 16th August 2004
- Cornwall, South-West of England
- Causes
- Tide was high so the water couldn't drain
- 3 rivers join just before the village
- Heavy localised rainfall. 89mm fell in an hour and 5 inches in7 hours
- Saturated ground from previous rainfall
- Topography of the land: V-Shaped valley, no flood plain etc
- Impacts
- 75 cars and 6 buildings were washed into the sea with also many boats lost
- 150 people were rescued by 7 helicopters
- Flood defence scheme costing £4.5m in spring 2008
- Lowered and widened the river channel
- The car park was up stream of the village
- The bridge was rebuilt
- Improved underground drainage system
- Flood Management
- Hard Management
- Raise Embankment size
- Dam building
- Levees
- Engineering
- Soft Management
- Planting trees
- Sand bags
- Land use zoning
- Hard Management
- Mississippi Floods 2011
- Thousands of square miles of agricultural and residential land were submerged by water
- Total damage is billions of dollars and 50,000 people evacuated
- Bangladesh Flood strategy
- Building of several dams and 12-15 storage basins developed
- Pumping of water to create storage for monsoons
- Boscastle Flood
- Flooding
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