downstream flooding
Deluge travels downward
Downstream flooding is flooding that occurs in areas situated along a waterway below the source of excess water.
When heavy rain falls upstream or a dam releases water, the consequences flow downward: Downstream flooding devastated communities miles from where the storm actually hit.
The term emphasizes that flood damage often strikes far from where the problem originated.
- overflowExceed capacity and spill
- surgeSudden powerful increase
- storm surgeWind-driven coastal flooding
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- inundationOverwhelming surge of water
rising waters · water levels · riverbank · levee · breach · high water mark · muddy · swollen · current · debris · evacuation · sandbags · emergency shelter · watershed · river basin · runoff · torrent · submerged
downstream floodingflood control
Preventing destructive overflow
flood mitigation · controlled release · flood prevention · water retention
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