Preparing communities for flooding: some recent lessons and some ways forward.

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Keys, Chas

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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1991Description: 12p., 13 refsSubject: Communities which have developed a range of appropriate preparatory measures will be the most disaster-ready and will survive serious flooding with less damage and trauma inflicted on them. In particular, towns protected by levees should have contingency plans to cope with the possibility that the levees will be overtopped in an extreme event or will fail for any other reason. The experience at Nyngan should be taken as salutory: levees, by themselves, may create only the illusion of genuine preparedness.

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Communities which have developed a range of appropriate preparatory measures will be the most disaster-ready and will survive serious flooding with less damage and trauma inflicted on them. In particular, towns protected by levees should have contingency plans to cope with the possibility that the levees will be overtopped in an extreme event or will fail for any other reason. The experience at Nyngan should be taken as salutory: levees, by themselves, may create only the illusion of genuine preparedness.

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