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  2. Flood control channel - Wikipedia

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    Flood control channels are large and empty basins where surface water can flow through but is not retained (except during flooding), or dry channels that run below the street levels of some larger cities, so that if a flash flood occurs the excess water can drain out along these channels into a river or other bodies of water. Flood channels are ...

  3. Flood management - Wikipedia

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    Flood control channels are large and empty basins where surface water can flow through but is not retained (except during flooding), or dry channels that run below the street levels of some larger cities, so that if a flash flood occurs the excess water can drain out along these channels into a river or other bodies of water. Flood channels are ...

  4. River Lee Diversion - Wikipedia

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    Before skirting the eastern boundary of the King George V Reservoir, the river is joined by the River Lee Flood Relief Channel.The man-made, steep, concrete-banked water flows under Lea Valley Road (), before forming a boundary with the William Girling Reservoir.

  5. Major flood protection project in Tampa is incomplete as city ...

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    Cascio said Tampa also has several other multiyear flood-relief projects in the works and is in the process of developing a new watershed management plan that will examine each basin and help ...

  6. Acts of heroism, rescues emerge after hundreds are trapped ...

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    Among the rescues was an operation at the Great American Assisted Living facility in Tampa, where more than 135 residents were stranded due to flooding. Acts of heroism, rescues emerge after ...

  7. Channeled Scablands - Wikipedia

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    The eroded channels also show an anastomosing, or braided, appearance. The presence of Middle and Early Pleistocene Missoula flood deposits have been documented within the Channeled Scabland as other parts of the Columbia Basin, e.g. the Othello Channels, Columbia River Gorge, Quincy Basin, Pasco Basin, and the Walla Walla Valley.

  8. How Dollywood is helping with Helene flood relief, with Dolly ...

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    After flood waters brought on by Hurricane Helene swept across the region, washing away homes, businesses and roads, the Pigeon Forge theme park donated 60,000 reusable masks, 30,000 disposable ...

  9. Cut-off Channel - Wikipedia

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    The Cut-off Channel is a man-made waterway which runs along the eastern edge of the Fens in Norfolk and Suffolk, England.It was constructed in the 1950s and 1960s as part of flood defence measures, and carries the headwaters of the River Wissey, River Lark and River Little Ouse in times of flood, delivering them to Denver Sluice on the River Great Ouse.