Definitions for flood control
flood con·trol

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1. flood controlnoun

   (engineering) the art or technique of trying to control rivers with dams etc in order to minimize the occurrence of floods

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1. Flood control

   Flood control methods are used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters. Flood relief methods are used to reduce the effects of flood waters or high water levels. Flooding can be caused by a mix of both natural processes, such as extreme weather upstream, and human changes to waterbodies and runoff. Though building hard infrastructure to prevent flooding, such as flood walls, can be effective at managing flooding, increased best practice within landscape engineering is to rely more on soft infrastructure and natural systems, such as marshes and flood plains, for handling the increase in water. For flooding on coasts, coastal management practices have to not only handle changes water flow, but also natural processes like tides. Flood control and relief is a particularly important part of climate change adaptation and climate resilience, both sea level rise and changes in the weather (climate change causes more intense and quicker rainfall), means that flooding of human infrastructure is particularly important the world over.

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1. flood control

   Flood control refers to the methods, strategies and measures used to prevent, reduce or manage the damaging effects of floods. This may include infrastructural interventions like dams, levees and floodgates, landscape management such as planting vegetation to absorb water, or enforcing zoning regulations to prevent construction in flood-prone areas. The goal of flood control is to safeguard human life, protect property, and reduce economic damage and environmental harm.

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1. Flood control

   In communications, flood control is a feature of many communication protocols designed to prevent overwhelming of a destination receiver. Such controls can be implemented either in software or in hardware, and will often request that the message be resent after the receiver has finished processing. Internet forums often use a flood control mechanism to prevent too many messages from being posted at once, either to prevent spamming or denial-of-service attacks. Internet Relay Chat servers will often quit users performing IRC floods with an "Excess Flood" message.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of flood control in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of flood control in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of flood control in a Sentence

1. Anselmo Collins:

   When we know that we're going to get significant storms in the LA area, we obviously work really closely with LA County flood control, if they happen to have a lot of water stored in their flood control dams, they can release that water ahead of time ; give it an opportunity to percolate and make room in those dams and the reservoirs to be able to collect the water that's coming in at the same time.

2. Jean Stothert:

   Omaha has 13 miles of flood control on the Missouri River. The levee is safe and the river is not expected to compromise the levee. The levee is being monitored as a precaution.

3. Margaret Mohr:

   However, for every day it doesn’t rain or snow during our wettest months, we are drying out, a lot of uncertainty remains about the next two months and water managers are maintaining reservoirs to hold as much water supply as possible while also managing flood control requirements and preparing for spring runoff.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=flood control
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_Control
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=flood control