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Flood Control and Floodplains

Environmental Restoration - Flood Plains vs Potholes

Environmental Restoration - Flood Plains vs Potholes

... The flood and post flood response revealed many opportunities which could provide for both flood control and aquatic habitat restoration -- Senate Bill 2418 addressed many of these ...the ...

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Overview of Flood Damages Prevented by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Flood Control Reduction Programs and Activities

Overview of Flood Damages Prevented by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Flood Control Reduction Programs and Activities

... The principal reason for the continued use of inventories that do not reflect recent developments in floodplains is the lack of funding for updating. Depending on size and development of area, these surveys can be ...

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Nonstructural Flood Damage Reduction Within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Nonstructural Flood Damage Reduction Within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

... in flood damage reduction within the United ...The Flood Control Act of 1917 was the first official legislation that authorized the Corps to have a significant role in flood damage reduction ...

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Spatial Analysis for Flood Control by Using Environmental Modeling

Spatial Analysis for Flood Control by Using Environmental Modeling

... Iran. Flood effects can be local, impacting a neighborhood or community, or very large, affecting entire river basins and multiple states ...of flood include: weather related reasons: heavy rainfall, ...

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Efficiency of soil and flood control measures in land consolidations

Efficiency of soil and flood control measures in land consolidations

... The primary aspect of the convenient effi ciency of fl ood-control measures is the protection of built-up areas of municipalities. A technical solution should meet the requirements of respective standards. Their ...

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Flood Control by Water Reservoir with Account of Runoff Forecast

Flood Control by Water Reservoir with Account of Runoff Forecast

... The research is aimed on development of providing additional information to the person making decisions regarding the flood control by water reservoir with help of both short term forecast of runoff ...

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THE INFLUENCE OF THE PRESENCE OF VEGETATIONS IN FLOODPLAINS ON FLOOD RISKS

THE INFLUENCE OF THE PRESENCE OF VEGETATIONS IN FLOODPLAINS ON FLOOD RISKS

... on flood areas depends mainly on the geometric parameters of vegetation, which as a dynamic factor causes a high changeability of flow condi- tions during the ...to floodplains, the methodology and ...

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Relationships between flood control and cholera in Matlab, Bangladesh

Relationships between flood control and cholera in Matlab, Bangladesh

... of flood protection to Matlab did not have major impacts on the spatial distribution of cholera ...or flood protection status, were located in the central and southern sections of ...

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Urban flood resilience: A chronology of policies to prevent flooding in Taipei

Urban flood resilience: A chronology of policies to prevent flooding in Taipei

... Since Taipei’s rapid urbanization and development, most of the farm lands have been converted into residential and commercial zones. Consequently, the impermeable land areas increased. As Swan (2010) indicates, ...

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Floodplains: the forgotten and abused component of the fluvial system

Floodplains: the forgotten and abused component of the fluvial system

... in floodplains being the most degraded fluvial morphologic unit, both in terms of loss of form and function and sheer levels of spatial ...direct flood alleviation measures and also to altered flood ...

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Protection from annual flooding is correlated with increased cholera prevalence in Bangladesh: a zero-inflated regression analysis

Protection from annual flooding is correlated with increased cholera prevalence in Bangladesh: a zero-inflated regression analysis

... the flood protected area of Matlab, when all the other environmental variables are con- trolled for, has a statistically significant positive effect in the cholera count ...of flood protection appears to ...

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Flood survivors’ perspectives on vulnerability reduction to floods in Mbire district, Zimbabwe

Flood survivors’ perspectives on vulnerability reduction to floods in Mbire district, Zimbabwe

... in flood-prone locations and engaging in fragile ...of flood disasters in this study. The flood disasters occur when processes generating vulnerability conditions intersect with community exposure to ...

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981 2015 11 20 Floodplains s.pdf

981 2015 11 20 Floodplains s.pdf

... www.mdfloodmaps.com  FEMA Map Service Center MSC www.msc.fema.gov  FEMA Region III Flood Risk MAP www.riskmap3.com  National Flood Insurance Program NFIP www.FloodSmart.gov... Questio[r] ...

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Household flood preparedness and associated factors in the flood-prone community of Dembia district, Amhara National Regional State, northwest Ethiopia

Household flood preparedness and associated factors in the flood-prone community of Dembia district, Amhara National Regional State, northwest Ethiopia

... Background: Flood preparedness empowers the community to respond effectively to related ...household flood preparedness and associated factors in the flood-prone community of Dembia district, ...

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Methods for monitoring land subsidence and earth fissures in the Western USA

Methods for monitoring land subsidence and earth fissures in the Western USA

... levees, flood retarding structures, flood control basins and channels, a liq- uefied petroleum gas storage facility, large gold and copper mines, and at a brine cavern at risk for catastrophic ...

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The Production of Unequal Vulnerability to Flood Hazards in Metro Vancouver, Canada

The Production of Unequal Vulnerability to Flood Hazards in Metro Vancouver, Canada

... practitioners was largely positive, affirming and constructive. The overriding feedback in four of the municipalities was that the research presented was important and potentially useful to them, though it contained ...

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Survey of efficiency of erosion and flood control measures at the Němčický stream

Survey of efficiency of erosion and flood control measures at the Němčický stream

... the flood harmful ...the flood wave transformation. Therefore, a technical flood control arrangement (reservoir) is needful at the experimental basin Němčický ...

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Hydrological Mann Kendal Multivariate Trends Analysis in the Upper  Yangtze River Basin

Hydrological Mann Kendal Multivariate Trends Analysis in the Upper Yangtze River Basin

... Hydrological events should be described through several correlated variables, so multivariate HFA has gained popularity and become an active research field during recent years. However, at present multivariate HFA mainly ...

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The Role of Land-Surface Hydrology on Small Stream Flash Flooding in Central North Carolina

The Role of Land-Surface Hydrology on Small Stream Flash Flooding in Central North Carolina

... As with any radar rainfall estimates, care must be taken when relying solely upon them for warning decisions, for the reasons listed in section 1.4.1. Forecasters must always verify that the estimates corroborate with ...

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A new method to predict the aggregate roughness of vegetation patterns on floodplains

A new method to predict the aggregate roughness of vegetation patterns on floodplains

... Figure 1: Cross section of a river with a floodplain (top: low discharge; bottom: high discharge). To get insight in the types of vegetation on a floodplain, maps of ecotypes are used. These charts present the vegetation ...

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