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Definition: Flood Control |
Flood ControlNoun1. (engineering) act or technique of trying to control rivers with dams etc to minimize occurrence of floods. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Flood ControlSynonym: Dams. (additional references) |
Crosswords: Flood Control |
| Specialty definitions using "flood control": Active Conservation Storage ♦ Conservation Storage ♦ detention reservoir, DRAFTER, CIVIL ♦ flood forecasting ♦ Live Capacity, Long Term Storage Dams ♦ Multipurpose Reservoir ♦ Pool Height ♦ retarding reservoir, river-flood stages forecasting ♦ SUPERVISOR, WATERWORKS ♦ U.S. Bureau of Reclamation ♦ Watershed and flood prevention operations. (references) |
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 | The tide gate from the riverside of Army Creek. The tide gate is a water control structure, the culvert is about 15 feet in diameter the flood control mechanisms have approximately 30" openings. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | An overview of the marsh and the culvert that restricts water from flowing from Quivett Creek into the marsh. The preferred restoration choice was to create an open channel between the two sections of marsh but the homes in the foreground would have been impacted. Instead the culverts were enlarged. Part of the project includes raising the abandoned roadway surface to provide flood control. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Sediment in the upper reaches of Coralville Lake, a Corps of Engineers flood control dam in eastern Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Fishing in Lake Sugema, a lake formed by a dam built as part of the Indian Creek-Van Buren Watershed Project in Van Buren County. The dam provides recreation, water supply, and flood control, and boosts the local economy. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
 | Three Mile Lake in Union County is a lake built as part of the Three Mile Watershed project. The dam provides recreation, water supply, and flood control, and boosts the local economy. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Lake Sugema, a lake formed by a dam built as part of the Indian Creek-Van Buren Watershed Project in Van Buren County. The dam provides recreation, water supply, and flood control, and boosts the local economy. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
 | Concrete chute spillway in dam built as part of a watershed project for flood control and erosion control. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Central and Southern Florida Flood Control, 901 Evernia St., West Palm Beach, Florida. Auditorium. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Ecuador | Several large-scale, highly-subsidized flood control and irrigation schemes are run by regional bodies. (references) |
Bangladesh | These include better flood control and irrigation, a generally more efficient use of fertilizers, and the establishment of better distribution and rural credit networks. (references) | |
Mexico | The IBWC divides the use of international waters, builds and operates water conservation and flood control projects, and constructs and maintains boundary markers on the land boundary and on international bridges. (references) | |
Political Economy | Guyana | There are severe shortages of skilled labor, and the economy is constrained by an inadequate and poorly maintained infrastructure for transportation, power distribution, flood control, and communications. (references) |
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Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Work was suspended on a number of flood control and reclamation projects and on the development of our national forests and parks. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | In the part that sound water resource projects play in providing irrigation, power, and flood control. |
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Expressions using "flood control": flood control levee ♦ flood control reservoir. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flood control | 43 |
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| Language | Translations for "flood control"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 防汛 . (various references) | |
Danish | flodkontrol. (various references) | |
Dutch | maatregelen voor bescherming tegen overstromingen, hoogwaterbeheersing. (various references) | |
Finnish | tulvasuojelu. (various references) | |
French | protection contre les crues (flood defence, flood mitigation, flood protection, flood-damage mitigation), lutte contre les inondations, lutte contre les crues (flood defence, flood mitigation, flood protection, flood-damage mitigation), défense contre les crues (flood defence, flood mitigation, flood protection, flood-damage mitigation). (various references) | |
German | Hochwasserschutzmassnahmen, Hochwasserschutz (flood defence, flood mitigation, flood protection, flood-damage mitigation). (various references) | |
Greek | έλεγχος πλημμυρών. (various references) | |
Italian | protezione contro le piene (flood defence, flood mitigation, flood protection, flood-damage mitigation), difesa dalle piene (flood defence, flood mitigation, flood protection, flood-damage mitigation), controllo delle piene. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 治水 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ちすい. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodflay ontrolcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | controlo de cheias. (various references) | |
Spanish | lucha contra las inundaciones. (various references) | |
Swedish | översvämningsskyddsåtgärder. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-f-l-l-n-o-o-o-o-r-t" | |
-4 letters: octoroon. | |
-5 letters: control. | |
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