Sentence examples for prevented flood from inspiring English sources

Fire crews say they have prevented flood water damaging an electrical substation near Reading, in Berkshire.

Fire crews say they have prevented flood water damaging an electrical substation near Reading, in Berkshire, which could have affected some 40,000 properties in the area and south Oxfordshire.

The report concludes that the scheme prevented flooding that would otherwise have occurred to homes and the town museum.

"We have drainage issues," is how Ms. Puglisi described the problems, noting that post-Floyd improvements had not prevented flooding.

He also cited a "slow the flow" scheme that has been shown to have prevented flooding at Pickering in North Yorkshire.

Anthony P. Mercantante, the Middletown administrator, pointed out that the levee prevented flooding even during a memorable northeaster in 1992.

Tree planting and other natural approaches have prevented flooding at Pickering in North Yorkshire over Christmas, at a time when heavy rainfall caused devastating flooding across the region.

Cuddalore has mobile tree-cutting machinery, sandbags and casuarinas trees waiting, to prevent flood waters from entering villages.

A3 Flood Evacuations in Dresden 30,000 residents were evacuated from their homes while volunteers stepped up efforts to prevent flood damage in Dresden, Germany.

In response to the flooding, residents placed sandbags around houses and office buildings to prevent flood damage.

Battling the Flood, Covenant, and human forces are the Sentinels: robotic drones designed by an extinct race called the Forerunners to protect their structures and prevent Flood outbreaks.