{"id":10368,"key":"Flood_control","title":"Flood control","latest":{"id":1207073,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T21:27:44Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Frozen flood control pipe.jpg|thumb]]\n\nAs floodplain managers, state resource agencies and local communities wrestle with the problems associated with flood-control dams; cities around the country are implementing innovative techniques for managing floods without new dams. While many of these alternatives are not quick fixes, they are real solutions that can be implemented with long-term planning. The following are some alternative approaches to dams for flood management:\n\n* Reducing runoff\n* In-river flood management\n* Separating the people and the threat\n\n== Pages in category \"Flood control\" ==\n\n{{Gallery\n| category = Flood control\n}}\n\n== See also ==\n\n* [[International Rivers Network]]\n* [[American Rivers]]\n* [http://www.apfm.info/ Integrated Flood Management]\n* [http://web.archive.org/web/20170916100148/http://www.sentex.net:80/~tcc/cfdb.html Catastrophic flood database]\n* [http://web.archive.org/web/20210226150925/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/ Dartmouth Flood Observatory]\n* [http://www.floodrisk.org.uk/ Flood Risk Management Research Consortium]\n* [http://www.deltaworks.org DeltaWorks.Org] Flood protecting dams and barriers project in the Netherlands\n* [http://www.hydroresponse.com/ Hydro Response]\n* [http://web.archive.org/web/20071017212140/http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=000E6686-677C-134D-A77C83414B7F0000 Protecting against the Next Katrina] - Scientific American Magazine (October 2005)\n* [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Europe_floods_2006 Europe floods 2006]\n* [http://floodmaster.de International teaching module \"Integrated Flood Risk Managment of Extreme Events\" (FLOODmaster)]\n* [http://www.wilsham.co.uk/flood-risk-assessment-advice Help to obtain independent professional advice on flood risks]\n* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_risk_assessment Flood Risk assessments]\n\nSeveral links above were copied from the [[Wikipedia:Flood]] article\n\n== External links ==\n\n* [[Wikipedia:Flood]]\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:Flooding]]"}