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Tujunga Wash is an example of a concrete flood control channel.

Flood control channels are large and empty basins where surface water can flow through but is not retained (except during flooding), or dry channels that run below the street levels of some larger cities, so that if a flash flood occurs the excess water can drain out along these channels into a river or other bodies of water. Flood channels are sometimes built on the former courses of natural waterways as a way to reduce flooding.

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Flood control channel

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Flood control channels are large and empty basins where surface water can flow through but is not retained (except during flooding), or dry channels that...

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Flood control

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Flood control (or flood mitigation, protection or alleviation) methods are used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters. Flooding...

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Los Angeles River

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Monica Mountains. From there the river flows east through a concrete flood control channel and very soon receives Browns Canyon Wash, which flows south from...

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Flood

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flooding. Examples for human changes are land use changes such as deforestation and removal of wetlands, changes in waterway course or flood controls...

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Floodplain

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floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river. Floodplains stretch from the banks of a river channel to the base of...

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Santa Rosa Creek

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de Santa Rosa by way of the Santa Rosa Flood Control Channel. This article covers both the creek and the channel. Though it begins as a wild stream in...

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Flood control in the Netherlands

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Flood control is an important issue for the Netherlands, as due to its low elevation, approximately two thirds of its area is vulnerable to flooding, while...

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Jakarta Flood Canal

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rivers around Jakarta instead of going through the city. This first flood control channel was designed by Hendrik van Breen, an engineer working for the Dutch...

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Floodway

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Floodway may refer to: Flood bypass Flood control channel Floodway (road), a flood plain crossing for a road The community of Floodway, Arkansas This...

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Napa River Flood Project

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the Napa River. The project is cited as a new way of thinking about flood control due to its "living river" principles. The Napa River runs some 55 miles...

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Worcester Flood Diversion Channel

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The Worcester Flood Diversion Channel is a flood control channel located in Auburn and Millbury, Massachusetts. It was built by the United States Army...

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Kenneth Bianchi

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her body was dumped next to 2844 Alta Terrace in La Crescenta, a flood control channel. Her naked body was discovered on Halloween, 1977, face up in a...

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Point Break

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ends when Utah's old knee injury flares up after jumping into a flood control channel. Despite having a clear shot, the injured Utah allows Bodhi to escape...

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Spillway

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release flood flow, and a few dams lack overflow spillways and rely entirely on bottom outlets. The two main types of spillways are controlled and uncontrolled...

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Johnstown flood of 1936

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enacted the Flood Control Act of 1936 and the Flood Control Act of 1937. In August, 1938 work began on the most extensive flood control channel improvement...

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Calaveras River

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Downstream from this flood control channel, the often dry Mormon Slough continues on its southerly path, through downtown, to the Stockton Channel. The Calaveras...

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Red River Floodway

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rivière Rouge) is an artificial flood control waterway in Western Canada. It is a 47 km (29 mi) long channel which, during flood periods, takes part of the...

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Flood Control Act of 1936

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The Flood Control Act of 1936, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 74–738, (FCA 1936) was an Act of the United States Congress signed into law by...

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Alameda Creek

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Niles Canyon and a flood control channel. Along its course, Alameda Creek provides wildlife habitat, water supply, a conduit for flood waters, opportunities...

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Flood Control Act of 1941

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mandatory storm drains and flood control channels throughout the city of Los Angeles in the wake of the Los Angeles Flood of 1938. Water Resources Development...

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Old River Control Structure

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to its present channel through Baton Rouge and New Orleans, with adverse economic effects on both port cities. The Mississippi flood of 1973 almost caused...

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Los Angeles County Department of Public Works

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earthquake in 1994 intact. Water from the dams is released into flood-control channels and some is diverted into spreading basins where it percolates into...

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Mole people

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to the Clark County Regional Flood Control District, the valley has about 450 miles (720 km) of flood control channels and tunnels, and about 300 miles...

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Acher

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its water (high water discharge) into the Acher Flood Control Channel. Just before the flood channel and the Acher divide, the Fautenbach joins it. The...

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