Sentence examples for flood peak from inspiring English sources

More extensive river restoration, for example in 20-25% of the total river length, resulted in a reduction in flood peak height of up to 20%.

But when the flood peak reached Delhi on Wednesday, the administration had had three days to warn 200,000 inhabitants of north Delhi and surrounding villages and to bring in the army to help with the evacuation.

The Environment Agency had spent £38m worth of flood defences after the 2005 disaster, yet its staff knew the dykes built ten years ago would be overwhelmed and rushed to warn locals telling them the flood peak coming down the Petteril, one of three rivers that meet in Carlisle, would flood their homes.

Finally, we also determined the dates of the flood beginning and of the flood peak.

The stationarity of annual flood peak records is the traditional assumption of flood frequency analysis.

The tail of the temporal distribution of the flood peak is also changing.

Wetlands reduce flood peaks.

In fact, studies show that in some places dredging can even make downstream flooding worse and heighten flood peaks – the very last thing people at the bottom of the Thames or Severn catchments need at the moment.

Soil erosion caused by dam-related deforestation accentuates the process, adding to water volumes at flood peaks, which can only be controlled by opening sluice gates and letting out a torrent of water.

During last winter's torrential rains, when they were putting up sandbags to protect homes in central Winchester from the Itchen's rising waters, capturing water on upstream meadows such as Victoria's helped slow the flow and reduce the flood peaks.

For instance, reforestation may cause more intense rainfall and dykes may increase flood peaks.