Sentence examples for upstream flood from inspiring English sources

A few days later another reader wrote to me, warning that "upstream flood banks now protect crops, not the city of York".

Its flow through the Tulsa area is controlled by upstream flood control reservoirs, but its width and depth can vary widely throughout the year, such as during periods of high rainfall or severe drought.

The chapter analyzes the extreme policy that favors the Upstream Flooding sector.

Dams formed by landslide deposits are a common phenomenon that can cause upstream flooding conditions as well as outburst floods during uncontrolled dam breaks (Costa and Schuster 1988; Korup 2002), affecting the most vulnerable areas in mountainous regions, the valleys.

It was activated twice in the year 2012 after heavy rainfall, and transformed into a debris flow, which left two persons dead and three missing, damaged houses, and blocked the main road and the river, resulting in upstream flooding.

A bar separates this lake from the Arabian Sea which is usually opened during monsoon to prevent upstream flooding and inundation, and a new bar is naturally created by the long-shore currents after the monsoon.

In the formulation of the Control Problem, the objectives should in theory be given by the indices associated to the four sectors namely, Upstream Flooding, Irrigation, ENEL Power, and Downstream Environment.

Some of these dams may pose serious threats to people and property due to upstream inundation and downstream dam-breach flooding.

Thales suggested that the strong winds that blow southward over the delta in summertime hold back the flow of the river and cause the waters to rise upstream in flood.

The results projected an increase in the high streamflow by 44% for a majority of subbasins upstream of flood control reservoirs in the central United States (US) and a decrease in the low streamflow by 11% for subbasins upstream of hydropower reservoirs across the western US.

In the Chao Phraya River Basin it is estimated that surplus flows recorded downstream above a critical threshold could be harvested and recharged within the shallow alluvial aquifers in a distributed manner upstream of flood prone areas without significantly impacting existing large-medium storages or the Gulf and deltaic ecosystems.