Flood Management

What is flood management for?

• To help rivers flooding

• Protect certain areas from flooding

• To protect habitats from flooding

• To prevent rivers going near a town or cities

What is hard engineering?

• Man-made ways to try and control flooding

• Natural ways to try and control flooding

What is soft engineering

• Man-made ways to try and control flooding

• Natural ways to try and control flooding

Which is more expensive?

• Hard engineering

• Soft engineering

Which of these is a human cause of flooding?

• Heavy rainfall

• Natural Hazards

• Impermeable rocks

• Deforestation

What is "Afforestation"?

• Building artificial flood barriers

• Cutting down trees

• Planting trees near the river channel

• adding sad and shingle to the side of rivers

Which of the following is a negative impact of channel straightening

• It can cause more flooding downstream

• It is expensive

• It is environmentally friendly

• It looks good

What is an advantage of floodplain zoning?

• Expensive buildings are further away so there is less economic impact

• It can easily be done in all existing built-up areas

• Planning is simple as a standard model is followed

What is the main purpose of a relief channel?

• redirects excess water to areas which need more water

• redirects excess water around settlements

• reduces the need for flood walls

• water is moved more quickly through a settlement

What is river restoration?

• Returning a river it to its original / natural course

• Restoring hard engineering strategies

• Adding a new river channel

• hard engineering a new river channel