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Flood Management

This document discusses flood management and measures that can be taken to control floods. It defines what a flood is and explains that floods can damage homes, businesses and infrastructure while also causing loss of life. The document outlines structural measures like dams, reservoirs, embankments and improving channel capacity. It also discusses non-structural measures which include flood plain zoning, management policies, flood proofing, preparedness, response planning, and forecasting and warning systems.

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Flood Management

This document discusses flood management and measures that can be taken to control floods. It defines what a flood is and explains that floods can damage homes, businesses and infrastructure while also causing loss of life. The document outlines structural measures like dams, reservoirs, embankments and improving channel capacity. It also discusses non-structural measures which include flood plain zoning, management policies, flood proofing, preparedness, response planning, and forecasting and warning systems.

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DISASTER

MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT

NITISHA SARAF | GCAD/18/325


What do you understand by
flood management? Explain
different structural and non-
structural measures which
you may take for flood
control and its management.

NITISHA SARAF | GCAD/18/325


FLOOD MANAGEMENT
A flood is overflow of water that submerges the land which is normally dry. Periodic
floods occur on many rivers forming a surrounding region known as floor plain.

Floods originate from oceans and seas or waterbodies such as lakes, rivers, damaging
homes, businesses, infrastructure and causing human causalities. Floods can be local,
impacting a neighborhood or community or very large affecting entire region, plains,
valleys or deltas.

Flood management aims to reduce the human and socio-economic losses caused by
flooding and is part of the larger field of risk management. It analyses the relation
between physical aspect system and socio-economic environments through flood risk
assessment and tries to create understanding and action about the risk posed by
flooding.

NITISHA SARAF | GCAD/18/325


STRUCTURAL MEASURES
It refers to those disaster management tools which have physical entity such as
embankment, flood or cyclone shelter, dams etc. It aims at protecting an area up to
certain level of flooding. It can be divided into 5 categories:-
• Storage reservoirs to restrict overflow
• Retarding basis to lower the flow of flooding
• Levees and floodwalls to confine flood waters
• Improvement of channel capacity
• Some structural measures such as flood embankment etc..
Some of the structural measures to mitigate flood are:
• Dams and reservoirs for impounding excess runoff. Detention basins, retention
pond to lower the level of flooding downstream
• Embankment, dyke, polder, levee, bund, or flood wall to block the movement of
water from rivers to flood plain
• Improvement of conveyance capacity
• Flood by-pass, flood division
• Watershed management and afforestation.

NITISHA SARAF | GCAD/18/325


NON- This consists of the flood plain zoning and management.
Policies for infrastructure planning and development in
STRUCTURAL the flood plains. Flood proofing; disaster preparedness
and response planning and flood forecasting and

MEASURES
warning.

Some of the non-structural measures are:-


• Raised community areas with basic human needs
• Home places at higher elevations and built with flood
resistant materials
• Flood resistant infrastructure to continue critical
services during flood
• Legislation, policy and planning/ training and public
awareness/ institutional arrangements, flood
warning system/ local disaster action plans
• Flood forecasting and warning/ flood fighting/ fixed
proofing/ education and shelter managements/ flood
insurance/ flood plain zoning/ change in cropping
pattern

NITISHA SARAF | GCAD/18/325

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