flood prevention
Keeping waters back
Flood prevention encompasses measures taken to stop or reduce flooding before it occurs.
This includes infrastructure like dams, levees, and drainage systems, as well as land management practices such as preserving wetlands and limiting development in floodplains.
The city invested millions in flood prevention after the 2019 disaster.
Distinguished from flood control, which manages flooding already underway.
- leveesEarthen flood barriers
- culvertsTunnels for water flow
- embankmentsRaised earth structures
- afforestationIntroducing woods to treeless land
- floodgatesBarriers controlling water flow
dams · rain gardens · drainage channels · community education · wetlands restoration · storm surge · early warning systems · sandbags · sand bags · soil conservation · spillways · urban planning · riverbank · river bank · reservoir · high water mark · watershed · dike
- Dutch Waterworkspolders, dikes, land reclamation, water management, dykes
- watershed restorationstream restoration, river cleanup, watershed protection, habitat restoration, fish habitat
- Burrowingdigging, tunneling, excavating, tunnel networks
- weather controlcloud seeding, weather modification, silver iodide, rainmaking, dry ice
flood preventiondeferred maintenance
Postponed upkeep work
flood response · flood recovery · disaster relief · flood cleanup · flood insurance
flood preventionflooding
Overwhelming water accumulation
inundation · deluge · overflow · flash flood · dam breach
flood preventiondam removal
Destroying water-blocking structures