Geography: flooding in Carlisle 0.0 / 5 ? GeographyRiversGCSEOCR Created by: charlottesearleCreated on: 05-05-14 14:31 Where is Carlisle and which river flooded and when? Carlisle is in England, the river Eden flooded on the 8th January 2005 1 of 16 What were the causes of the flood? Heavy rainfall of 200mm, which saturated the soil - increasing surface run off 2 of 16 Why else was surface runoff increased? Because Carlisle is a large urban area made of impermeable materials such as concrete 3 of 16 What did this result to? The discharge reaching 1520 cumecs 4 of 16 Primary impacts: how many people died? 3 people died 5 of 16 Primary: how many people were made homeless? 3000 were made homeless 6 of 16 Primary: how many schools were flooded? 4 schools were flooded 7 of 16 Primary: What happened to businesses? 350 business were shut down 8 of 16 Primary: how many addresses lost power? 70,000 addresses lost power 9 of 16 What happened to rivers? They were polluted with rubbish and sewage 10 of 16 Secondary: how did this affect children? They lost out on education, one school was closed for months 11 of 16 Secondary: what did people suffer from? Stress-related illnesses 12 of 16 Secondary: how many jobs were at risk? Around 3000 Jobs were at risk 13 of 16 Flood protection management: what became a system to monitor rivers and what did they do? the Environment Agency monitors river levels and issues flood warnings to the public, local authorities and te media 14 of 16 Management: what did the local council do? Distributed sandbags, when flood warnings had been issued and gave out leaflets 15 of 16 Management: what else did Carlisle do? Created a scheme called the Eden and Petteril Flood Alleviation Scheme in 2008, involved building defence walls and levees 16 of 16
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