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Card 6
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Over 5 million properties in the UK are at risk of flooding, to save us we have prediction, prevention, planning, forecasting.
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Card 7
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Channelisation- river channel widened or deepened so it can carry more water or straightened, long lasting, effectively protects immediate area, altering river channel may lead to greater risk of flooding downstream, unnatural & visually intrusive
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Card 8
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Floodplain zoning - authorities introduce policies to control urban development close to or on the floodplain. Cheap, sustainable. Doesnt help with housing shortages, harder to enforce planning regulations in LICs
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Card 9
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Flood walls - vertical barrier usually made from concrete, can be used in areas where space is limited, easily + quickly erected in pre constructed sections. Must be assembled well otherwise water can get through joints.
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Card 10
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The river Nene, Northampton - In 2002 a 450m clay flood embankment was built upstream creating a flood storage area behind it, it cost £2 million.