Flood management strategies

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Flood management strategies
  1. Hard engineering
    1. What are they? Man made structures
      1. Overall disadvantages
        1. Expensive to build and mantian and need technical skill
          1. If dam breaks then a huge amount of water will rapidly flood the land
            1. Natural processes are disrupted
              1. Crops don't get fertile silt from river sediment during low leving flooding
              2. Dont look good
            2. Dams
              1. What are they? Huge walls built acorss river, flood water is caught by dam= prevnts floods downstream water, relased steady throughout the year
                1. Disadvantages
                  1. Affect wildlife- pevent salmon migrating upstream to breeding ground
                    1. They're very expensive
                      1. Destroys farmland and forces people to move elsewhere
                    2. Advantages
                      1. Turbines often built into dams- produce elctricity
                        1. Can use reservoir for recreational activities
                      2. Channel straightening
                        1. Meanders removed , makes water flow faster reduces flooding because water drains downstream more quickly doesn't build up
                          1. Advantage
                            1. less time to navigate the river because it has been made shorter
                            2. Disadvantages
                              1. Flooding may happen downstream instead as flood water is carried there faster
                                1. More erosion occurs downstream
                              2. Levees
                                1. Embankments built along rivers- river can hold more water without overflowing
                                  1. Advantages
                                    1. Allow flood plain to be built on
                                    2. Disadvantages
                                      1. Quite expensive
                                        1. If leeves are breached risk of severe flooding
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