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A flood embankment is traditionally an earth wall used to shore up flood waters.. Most flood embankments are between 1 metre and 3 metres high. A 5-metre-high (16 ft) flood embankment is rare.
Cattle grazing below high water, Isle of Dogs, 1792 (Robert Dodd, detail: National Maritime Museum) The Embanking of the tidal Thames is the historical process by which the lower River Thames, at one time a shallow waterway, perhaps five times broader than today, winding through malarious marshlands, has been transformed by human intervention into a deep, narrow tidal canal flowing between ...
Some parts of the Embankment were rebuilt in the 20th century due to wartime bomb damage or natural disasters such as the 1928 Thames flood. The Thames and Albert embankments are but a fraction of the 200 miles of walls that prevent the Thames from flooding adjoining lands, and which were begun in the Middle Ages.
The 1928 Thames flood was a disastrous flood of the River Thames that affected much of riverside London on 7 January 1928, as well as places further downriver. Fourteen people died and thousands were made homeless when floodwaters poured over the top of the Thames Embankment and part of the Chelsea Embankment collapsed.
Flooding in London has been a problem since Roman times. [1] In 1954, the Waverley Committee, established to investigate the serious North Sea flood of 1953 which affected parts of the Thames Estuary and parts of London, recommended that "as an alternative to raising the banks, the possibility and cost of erecting a structure across the Thames which could be closed in a surge should be ...
One of UK's biggest flood defences gets £43m boost. Dan Ayers - BBC News, West of England and Sarah Turnnidge - BBC News, West of England. February 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM.
An embankment 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) high typically has a footprint 15 metres (49 ft) wide which makes it unsuitable in some areas. Within the embankment there is a central core, either clay or man made structure like concrete or metal piling. This gives added integrity and prevents water from seeping through under or over the embankment.
The most severe flood occurred early on the morning of 5 February 1852, when the embankment of the Bilberry reservoir collapsed causing the deaths of 81 people. It is recorded as the 23rd most serious, worldwide [citation needed], in terms of loss of life from floods and landslides in human history.