Anticipation of floods through watercourse monitoring, forecasting, and vigilance; 6.
Risk knowledge; Risk awareness through education and preventive information; Adaptation to risk, including control and mitigation of urbanization; Resistance to floods through hazard-oriented measures; Anticipation of floods through watercourse monitoring, forecasting, and vigilance; Reaction to floods, that is, coping capacity or crisis management.
Houses vanished, trees were uprooted like weeds, boulders taller than I pounded through the watercourses like the bowling balls of titans, and the slurry of mud and ash rose as high as fifteen feet in some places.
"It's about 500 acres, with a watercourse weaving through the park, with designed views which blurred in time".
So we discover words such as feith – a watercourse running through peat, the form of which resembles veins or sinews; bugha – a green, bow-shaped area of moor grass formed by the winding of a stream; and rionnach maoim – shadows cast on the moorland by clouds moving across the sky on a bright and windy day – lighting up a place that is suddenly not empty or meaningless at all.
Reading the glossary, I was amazed by the compressive elegance of its lexis, and its capacity for fine discrimination: a caochan, for instance, is "a slender moor-stream obscured by vegetation such that it is virtually hidden from sight", while a feadan is "a small stream running from a moorland loch", and a fèith is "a fine vein-like watercourse running through peat, often dry in the summer".
Mr Justice Lightman ruled that the: "Public Right of Navigation [PRN] may only be extinguished by legislation or exercise of statutory powers or by destruction of the subject matter of PRN eg through silting up of the watercourse".
Using novel passive transponder technology, small woody debris has been traced through an urban case study watercourse to establish key influential factors on urban debris transport.
Tiber Creek, a natural watercourse that once passed through the National Mall, was fully enclosed underground during the 1870s.
But in many other instances it will threaten a site and its species, either through construction, disrupting watercourses, pollution, or creating a barrier between sites and isolating them.
Sometimes we followed a frail watercourse, sometimes a well-traveled track through the woodland.
