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>> to modern river control
There is no such thing really, for several reasons. The weather patterns for which river control has been planned are no longer valid. Controlling a river in one place means a knock on uncontrolable event up or down stream. Given a sufficient period of time, every river will at some point find its old path again. Coastal flood defences ditto, specially with reference to moving issues elsewhere.
There is only one way to live with flood conditions, construct infrastructure to mitigate the effects. Buidlings designed to quickly shrug off floods, build on stilts, raised roadways, fast flow channels etc etc.
With reference to changing weather patterns, flood management needs a completely holistic approach, managing the land and water from above source to sea. Building on flood plains has made flooding worse as the natural expansion areas have been reduced. Piecemeal control, our current approach, wont cut it.
Last edited by: Zero on Wed 26 Feb 20 at 09:45
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