The bank retreat of about 100 m during 1949 2007 was caused by the natural bank erosion processes as well as by channel straightening as a flood control measure for Bratislava.
In particular, local clustering methods may be useful for analyzing the effects introduced by the construction of a flood control embankment that protects the northern half of the study area in the late1980's [ 41, 42].
The Yazoo Pump is billed as a flood control project by its two Senate champions, Trent Lott and Thad Cochran of Mississippi, who say it's essential to the farm economy in the Mississippi Delta.
As it passes through the urban area, it receives City Creek from the right and enters a flood control channel flanked by earthen levees on both sides.
Construction on a flood control project in the Los Angeles River's channel by the Army Corps of Engineers was stopped by the flooding.
Therefore, a flood control variable was created following a binomial distribution, namely, the flood control variable was coded as 1 if a bari was protected by the flood control embankment, and 0 otherwise.
This diversion is now regulated by storage in Lake Mendocino, a flood-control and water conservation reservoir that is described below.
Billed as a flood-control project by its Senate champions, the pumps would have cost $220 million and drained thousands of acres of valuable wetlands and hardwood forests merely to serve the interests of a handful of soybean farmers who already drink liberally from the public trough.
The river will always be a flood-control channel, constrained by concrete to protect more than 150,000 working-class households on the flood plain.
Though the project is not without opposition, town officials say it is far from a pork barrel windfall and will, in fact, save Grundy as well as federal and state money by combining flood control with a highway project.
