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  2. Storm drain - Wikipedia

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    Storm drains are often unable to manage the quantity of rain that falls during heavy rains and/or storms. When storm drains are inundated, basement and street flooding can occur. Unlike catastrophic flooding events, this type of urban flooding occurs in built-up areas where human-made drainage systems are prevalent. Urban flooding is the ...

  3. South Forty-Foot Drain - Wikipedia

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    The Lincolnshire Fens are an area of low-lying land which have been subject to flooding and attempts to prevent it for centuries. In medieval times, the Midfen Dyke was built to drain the area, but by 1500, this was regarded less as a drain for the land than as a boundary marker between the Parts of Holland and the Parts of Kesteven, two of the three medieval subdivisions of Lincolnshire which ...

  4. Crescenta Valley flood (1933 and 1934) - Wikipedia

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    Storm drain under construction in 1936 Following the disaster, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the County of Los Angeles (with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works ) built a flood control system of catch basins and concrete storm drains, designed to prevent a repeat of the 1933-1934 disaster.

  5. Flood - Wikipedia

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    observation of previous and present flood heights and inundated areas, statistical, hydrologic, and hydraulic model analyses, mapping inundated areas and flood heights for future flood scenarios, long-term land use planning and regulation, engineering design and construction of structures to control or withstand flooding,

  6. List of floods - Wikipedia

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    Saint Marcellus' flood a storm tide is also called the "Second St. Marcellus flood".; St. Mary Magdalene's flood occurred on and around the feast day of St. Mary Magdalene, 25 July; the passage of a Genoa low the rivers Rhine, Moselle, Main, Danube, Weser, Werra, Unstrut, Elbe, Vltava and their tributaries inundated large areas.

  7. 100-year flood - Wikipedia

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    Mississippi River at Kaskaskia, Illinois, during the Great Flood of 1993. A 100-year flood is a flood event that has on average a 1 in 100 chance (1% probability) of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.

  8. Mississippi flood of 1973 - Wikipedia

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    Morgan City, Louisiana inundated during May 1973. Date: December 1972-June 1973: Location: ... This page was last edited on 5 August 2023, at 19:02 (UTC).

  9. Drainage - Wikipedia

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    Subsurface drains, on the other hand, are designed to manage water that seeps into the soil beneath the planting surface. French drains, which are gravel-filled trenches with perforated pipes at the bottom, are the most common type of subsurface drain. Trench drains, which are similar but shallower and wider, are also used in some situations. [4]