NOUN
- (engineering) the art or technique of trying to control rivers with dams etc in order to minimize the occurrence of floods
How To Use flood control In A Sentence
- This wrecked flood control, municipal and industrial water storage, irrigation and hydroelectric power.
- Therefore, after steady freeze up of Inner Mongolia reach, Haibowan Reservoir will not undertake flood control.
- flood control in the Missouri basin
- The first Crappie Derby was held in 1974 on the famed flood control impound, which is a dammed section of the Otselic River, drawing 190 participants. Theithacajournal.com -
- With their gently sloping sides, Sanxingdui's walls may instead have been dikes for flood control.
- Trillions of dollars would have to be spent constructing thousands of dams on every river basins in the world, and many trillions more integrating them into urban stormwater management systems; wetland restoration projects; concretized rivers and irrigation channels; fortified lagoons and estuaries; abandoned tunnels; flood control structures; and every faucets, sprinklers, buckets and rolling 'hippos' throughout the world. Hydrology vs. the Apocalypse
- Since Gongzui Hydropower Station put into operation, the tail water level always threaten the flood control safety against pow er-house(in di cating powerhouse on the ground).
- The city left the natural wash intact, and the area now serves as both flood control and urban wildlife habitat.
- The major area of cooperation is infrastructure, mainly pollution and flood control.
- During low stages on the Mississippi River, flood control locks are opened seasonally to drain the interior floodplain waters.
