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Tag: river engineering

Flood Control – Part 1

6th March 2019 Sandra

Flat floodplains are easy to build on, but it is not so easy to keep the river from flooding over…

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Posted in: Britain - General, Rivers Filed under: flooding, levee, river, river engineering

Keeping it in the Channel

20th February 2019 Sandra

The wide flat area of land beside a river is called a floodplain, for obvious reasons. When it rains, water…

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Posted in: Britain - General, Rivers Filed under: bankful, flooding, floodplain, levee, river, river engineering

River Engineering

13th February 2019 Sandra

As a river’s meander pattern changes, and the position of the channel shifts, sections of land are suddenly on the…

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Posted in: Britain - General, Rivers Filed under: cut-off meander, meander, river, river engineering

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