Flood Control & Risk Reduction | America's Watershed Initiative
The extent of flooding can often be reduced by a variety of strategies, including: reservoirs to reduce peak river flows; levees and flood walls to contain flood waters; and preserving wetlands to provide natural flood storage and to redirect flood waters.
Flooding, Structural Flood Control Measures, and Recent …
Jan 1, 2015 · Since 1950, an array of structural flood control measures has been constructed (and some later upgraded) to mitigate flooding, including two diversion canals, a flood control dam, dyking (linear and ring dyking), and elevated earthen pads under structures.
Mitigate Flooding | US EPA - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Oct 16, 2024 · Using Green Infrastructure for Flood Mitigation. By improving stormwater and floodplain management, green infrastructure can build communities' resiliency to localized and riverine flooding. To learn about green infrastructure …
Floodplain Management - FEMA.gov
Oct 1, 2024 · We have tools and resources to help communities navigate NFIP requirements and implement higher standards of floodplain management. State and federal agencies, local communities and property owners have a role in reducing flood risk and helping communities become more resilient.
Flooding in the United States 102: Policy and Solutions
Dec 13, 2023 · This explainer discusses solutions for reducing the cost of flood events and accelerating recovery afterward. Specifically, we will discuss how to reduce both flood hazard (the likelihood of a flood) and exposure (population and properties in hazard areas).
Nov 5, 2012 · the federal role in emergency flood response and post-disaster repair and rehabilitation of flood protection measures. This report will help answer the following questions: Which federal programs can assist with floodfighting? Which federal programs can assist with repairing damaged dunes, levees, and flood control works?
Flooding Facts, Causes, and Prevention | NRDC
Nov 3, 2023 · According to the 2018 study "Estimates of Present and Future Flood Risk in the Conterminous United States," published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, more than 40 million U.S....
6 Implementing Flood Risk Management Strategies | Levees and …
A flood risk management strategy identifies and implements measures that reduce the overall risk and what remains is the residual risk (Figure 6-1). In developing the strategy, those responsible judge the costs and benefits of each measure taken and their overall impact in reducing the risk.
Frontiers | Restoring Rivers and Floodplains for Habitat and Flood …
Conventional flood control has emphasized structural measures such as levees, reservoirs, and engineered channels—measures that typically simplify river channels and cut them off from their floodplain, both with adverse environmental consequences.
Managing floodplains using nature‐based solutions to support …
Jul 3, 2021 · Almost all large rivers in Central and Southern Europe are affected by dikes and other flood-protection measures, in major catchments, such as the Rhine, Elbe, Danube and Oder, only 10–20% of the former floodplains are left as inundation areas (Brunotte et al., 2009).