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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. Floodplain restoration - Wikipedia

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    Land use of the Manawatu River Floodplain in New Zealand. Floodplain restoration is the process of fully or partially restoring a river's floodplain to its original conditions before having been affected by the construction of levees (dikes) and the draining of wetlands and marshes.

  5. Jubilee River - Wikipedia

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    The Jubilee River is an artificial flood-relief channel in southern England. It is 11.6 km (7.2 mi) long [ 1 ] and is on average 45 metres (148 feet) wide. [ 2 ] It was constructed in the late 1990s and early 2000s to take overflow from the River Thames and so alleviate flooding to areas in and around the towns of Maidenhead , Windsor , and ...

  6. River engineering - Wikipedia

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    The Los Angeles River is extensively channelized with concrete embankments.. River engineering is a discipline of civil engineering which studies human intervention in the course, characteristics, or flow of a river with the intention of producing some defined benefit.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Surface irrigation - Wikipedia

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    The flood water is then diverted to the fields. This may be done by free intakes, by diversion spurs or by bunds, that are built across the river bed. The flood water, typically lasting a few hours or a few days, is channelled through a network of primary, secondary and sometimes tertiary flood channels.

  9. Tujunga Wash Greenway - Wikipedia

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    It “takes urban runoff from the flood control channel and creates a new stream with some of the natural characteristics from the Tujunga Wash, while native plants in the streambed help clean the water and establish habitat for animals such as birds, frogs and lizards.” [4] The naturalized side channel within the greenway is a bioswale that ...