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unusual facts about flood protection



Halcrow Group

The Thames Hub combines rail, freight logistics, aviation, renewable energy and its transmission, flood protection and regional development in the Thames Estuary and connects this infrastructure to a trade and utilities spine that runs the length of the UK.

Rappbode Auxiliary Dam

The Rappbode Auxiliary Dam near Trautenstein is used, together with the main dam, for supplying drinking water and for flood protection.


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Alameda Dam

It provides flood protection and irrigation for this area of Saskatchewan, along with protection for Minot, North Dakota.

Großache

From 1996-2001 the Großache was renaturised in the area of Kirchdorf in Tirol as part of the Kirchdorf flood protection project.

Isle of Grain

These proposals, called the Thames Hub Airport, would combine airport, flood protection and energy generation.

Michael D. Duvall

In January 2005, he was appointed to the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) and served on the Foothill/Eastern Corridor Joint Powers Authority, on the Orange County Sanitation District, as a Director of the Ground Water Replenishment System, and as a Member of the Santa Ana River Flood Protection Agency.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works controversies

In August 2005, forty years later, when Hurricane Katrina passed to the east of New Orleans, the Corps's flood protection failed catastrophically with levee breaches in over 50 places.