Discuss the causes of the Morpeth Flood of 2008 and evaluate the responses to it (40 marks) On Saturday the 6th September 2008, Morpeth was described to have received the worst flooding in the town’s history, Morpeth is an old market town which is situated in a loop of the river Wansbeck in the northeast of England, about 15 miles north of Newcastle upon Tyne and 12 miles west from the North sea. Morpeth is no stranger to flooding, a severe flood occurred in 1963, in which over 500 properties
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Synopsis: One of the most significant mining disaster happened at a little valley that located in Buffalo count, West Virginia in February 1972. The disaster cause by a dam corruption which was used to block black water produced in mining procedures. The flood break out from the fallen dam and rush out the 17 mile valley below it, killed more than 100 people, 1000 people injured and more than 4000 people were homeless. The disaster quickly gain the attention from the author of
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DAM Site Selection Using GIS Techniques and remote sensing to Minimize Flash Floods in East Nile Locality (Soba Valley)-Khartoum State Abdel Rahim Elhag1, Islam Hamad Eljack1 1School of Survey, Department of GIS, Faculty of Engineering, Sudan University of Sciences and Technology, SUDAN Abstract: In the last few year’s devastating flash floods descending downstream through valleys have occurred in East Nile Locality-Sudan. A flash flood can be caused by intense rain, particularly when it takes
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Flood is defined as the over-flowing by water of the normal confines of a stream or other body of water, or the accumulation of water by drainage over areas that are not normally submerged (WMO, 1990). It is an unavoidable natural phenomenon occurring from time to time in all rivers and natural drainage systems which creates damages on properties, natural resources and people (Kumar and Santosh, 2015). In Ethiopia, a major river basin that has serious flood problems is the Awash River basin located
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The article I chose is “The River Restoration Project offers a Sprinkling Of Hope,” by Daniel Weintraub. I chose this article because I believe that the River Project is worth the $400,000,000. Daniel Weintraub graduated from college and started working for the Sacramento Bee. The Sacramento Bee is located in Sacramento California the state capital. A lot of republicans and democrats live there. Also a lot of people that really care about the environment and there is a lot
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life in 1950. It inflicted significant damage to the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. During the period of floods, the Red River Floodway takes part of the Red rivers flow and diverts it around the city before discharging it back to the river below the dam at Lockport. The floodway had the ability to carry floodwater at a rate of approximately 1,700 cubic meters per second. An expansion project was later initiated in 2005 to increase the carrying capacity of the floodway so that it can carry flood water
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Angat Dam Dams have been an influential part of human development for thousands of years. However, it was only in the last century, and increasingly in the last 50 years, that technological advances have enabled the construction of large dams. These are important reservoir structures for various communities for these structures help people to have water to drink and provide water for irrigation, improving navigation, creating a reservoir of water to supply industrial uses, generating hydroelectric
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Environmental Impacts of Dams By Tania M. Brown Instructor: Timothy Butcher Environmental Site Assessment 10/27/2008 Throughout the past few years, the negative impacts of dams have become so well known that most countries have stopped building them altogether and are now forced to invest their money into fixing the problems created by existing dams. The environmental impacts of dams have come under renewed examination in recent years. Dam advocates have historically
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PURPOSE The purpose of this report is to geologically evaluate the potential hazards for flooding in Hazard City. This report will include a detailed historic and extrapolated Stream Gauge Data Worksheet, as well as a graph of the Discharge Frequency Curve expected on Clearwater River. The report will provide Hazard city with my scientific analysis, conclusions, and provide recommendations concerning potential flood damages. METHOLODOGY The methodology used was to utilize the Recurrence Interval
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Imagine a world in which all the rivers are connected to each other. There are many rivers and they each have their own source, and they have tides and currents that come in and go out. The waters of the rivers mix and merge to such extent that the temperature and fish populations are pretty much the same no matter where you go. The people of the world use the rivers for food, water, recreation, power and transport. They go upstream and they go downstream, they build damns, boats, and irrigation
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