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Flood control is an important part of climate change adaptation and climate resilience. [3] Flood control is part of environmental engineering. It involves the management of flood water movement, such as redirecting flood run-off through the use of floodwalls and flood gates, rather than trying to prevent floods altogether. It also involves the ...
By definition, flood control channels range from the size of a street gutter to a few hundred or even a few thousand feet wide in some rare cases. Flood control channels are found in most heavily developed areas in the world. One city with many of these channels is Los Angeles, as they became mandatory with the passage of the Flood Control Act ...
Pages in category "Flood control in the United States" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The bond has about 1.5 time the money for wildfire and forest resilience needs, for example, than flood control. “The (climate change) problem is so big, people don’t know where to start half ...
This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. Barrages (dam) (2 C, 19 P, 1 F) Flood control by continent (4 C) Flood control by country (8 C)
Flood control (communications) In communications, flood control is a feature of many communication protocols designed to prevent overwhelming of a destination receiver. [1] Such controls can be implemented either in software or in hardware, and will often request that the message be resent after the receiver has finished processing.
Flood control in the United States (5 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Flood control in North America" This category contains only the following page.
S. Schooner Bayou Control Structure. Semicircular bund. Shellmouth Reservoir. SMART Tunnel. Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project.