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
- The Hesco barrier or bastion is a modern gabion used for flood control and military fortification. A Nightmare’s Prayer
- We have experienced impacts of the work we've done in the Mississippi River, in channelizing the river for navigation and flood control.
- While at the Chicago Flood Control Conference in June 1927, he admitted that ‘he hadn't been well and oughtn't to be at the conference, but he couldn't resist taking part in one of the outstanding problems of the nation.’
- The major area of cooperation is infrastructure, mainly pollution and flood control.
- Flood control projects also endanger lowland streams, home to rare freshwater fishes.
- Dayu flood control have to review the Western Regions Mountain View Distinguish the flow of water.
- Rivers and streams are being paved everywhere, the general justification being flood control, when in fact it's hogwash.
- Bottomland hardwood forests and remnants of swamp forests can be found near the flood control reservoirs.
- Literally thousands of concrete dams are providing water supply shortage, irrigation, flood control, and power generation.
- Literally thousands of concrete dams are providing water supply shortage, irrigation, flood control, and power generation.
