Sentence examples for large flood from inspiring English sources

With the large flood defence budget now set until 2020, other areas are likely to suffer.

Today's clean-up operations in the flood-battered county also come as a large flood response demonstration takes place in Hampshire.

"Not all of them have been followed up, and I still have some doubt with respect to our capacity to cope with a very large" flood, said Mr. Hall, of Oxford.

Officials with the state Department of Environmental Conservation said in a statement that they had not sought to list the Lower Esopus Creek as impaired "because the source of the suspended sediment — or 'turbidity' — problem was mostly streambed erosion that resulted from large flood events in 2011".

Professor David Petley, of the International Landslide Centre at Durham University, warns there is "substantive risk of an outburst" as the water level approaches the top of the dam, with "the potential for a large flood wave to travel downstream as far as Tarbela Dam", 50km northwest of Islamabad.

This scenario also happened for large flood volume with relatively low peak discharge and vice versa.  .

Several water-storage reservoirs and a large flood-control dam and reservoir are located there.

Near Radford, Virginia, the New River is dammed to form Claytor Lake (hydroelectricity), and near Hinton, West Virginia, the Bluestone Dam impounds a large flood-control reservoir.

But the financing is not yet secure, and the World Bank has said such large flood-control solutions may be unsustainable.A better option may be a smaller $1.4 billion dyke proposed by Royal HaskoningDHV, a Dutch consultancy that has managed similar projects in New Orleans and other flood-prone places.

He waved a hand at the large flooded area beyond the beach.

Large floods have hit Bangkok at least twice a decade over the past 30 years.