"flood control measures" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to actions or strategies implemented to prevent or mitigate the effects of flooding. Example: In response to the recent floods, the government has implemented various flood control measures, such as building dams and improving drainage systems, in order to protect the affected areas from further damage.
The flooding problem in the Yazoo watershed can be addressed with minor flood control measures to protect houses and roads and reforestation of wetter areas.
What New Orleans needed was a federal government willing to pay to ensure a safe infrastructure, including flood control measures and levee repair, to all Americans, and not just to rich Americans or those with powerful Congressional representation.
Reclamation and drainage improvements were conducted intensively between the 10th and 13th centuries; large-scale flood control measures were undertaken in the 11th and again in the 15th century.
Plans had been in the works for better flood control measures, but they have been snagged and stalled, said Mayor Dennis Walaker, by residents who complained about "how the project might block their views, might change the way their backyards looked".
STREAM can then serve as a decision support tool to design for instance flood control measures.
The BVT for the evaluation of flood control measures was developed by Bana e Costa et al. (2004).
There will also be an effort to improve the condition of the River Rouge, which was straightened out and lined with concrete in an Army Corps of Engineers flood control measure in 1970's.
The blockage of the river flow was adopted as a flood control measure to protect its riparian areas, especially the Nagaon town, from flood hazard.
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.
Mainly as a response to the increasing food hazard faced by the district administrative headquarter, i.e., the Nagaon town, an ad hoc flood control measure was undertaken by constructing an earthen embankment, known as Hatimura dyke, across the river's take-off point near Hatimura in the year 1964.
