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    begun. Two waves of intense flooding hit the town unexpectedly, and with little warning. The town is a quaint little area with cute shops and storefronts, which sits in a valley, and the main street cuts a swath between two higher vistas. Several storms had been forecast earlier that day, and heavy rain was expected, but no one could have predicted such devastation, in such a short amount of time. This is the second massive flash flood to hit this area in as many years, leaving business owners,

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    watersheds in TRCA jurisdiction, the Don River watershed is over 80% developed and has a very high rainfall runoff response. There are three high risk flood vulnerable areas in this watershed; the Hoggs Hollow, Lower Don, and the Yonge and Elgin Mills area. A hydrological model has been established for Don River watershed and has been updated in 2004. After that, 12 years of meteorological and stream flow data has been collected and a number of significant storm events have occurred. Another hydrology

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    Two Rivers is a campground not too far from Sartell, I have been there countless times throughout my childhood. It is called two Rivers because the Mississippi River and the Platte River connect at a bay that surrounds the entire campground. The Platte River is much smaller than the Mississippi, which makes it popular to tub on, like a giant lazy river at a water park. Tubing on the River is one of the most popular activities, with that you can also canoe and kayak. Most years the water in low and

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    Colorado River The Colorado River had the highest water quality of all tested sites. The dissolved oxygen at this site was 8.92 mg/L and could be attributed to a number of different reasons (Table 1). The sample was taken when the sun was high and water dwelling plants had been photosynthesizing for a number of hours. The water was flowing fairly quickly and there was a small riffle at the area where the reading was taken which could have increased dissolved oxygen of the water. The river had a

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    money, fixing the drainage system, and by coming up with procedures or regulations for future constructions, so people can build their new establishments on higher grounds. It has been stated by the Weather Channel that, “In June of 2016, the Brazos River crested just over 4 feet above its previous record flood stage at Richmond, Texas” (Tom Moore). Beings that Collage Station is located in a Bryan Valley, the area is mostly flat terrain with occasional hills and slow absorbing soil, packed with large

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    Land Use ( & 7 )

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    catchments is land use impacts on streams. Urbanization and land use for intensive cropping and irrigated agriculture has negative impact on stream ecosystem health, where ecosystem health is defined in terms of ecological integrity. The capacity of the river or stream to maintain ecosystem structure and function. In urban areas, the increase in the catchment area covered agriculture, pumping etc so result of that changes in hydrology stream and declines in stream macro invertebrate diversity and loss of

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    Toowoomba Case Study

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    The existing detention basin built back in 2011 were too small to have meaningful mitigating effects for the storm water flowing through them due to the overly saturated catchment area during the wet season. On the other hand, there are 3 major dams that releases water into the Toowoomba system includes the Cooby, Perseverance and Cressbrook Dam. These reservoir

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    Urban Watershed

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    oduction Watershed are a very important part of any environment. They collect any water that drains off the surrounding land and transports it into a larger body of water, such as a lake or stream. In simpler terms, a watershed is a drainage basin where all water, within its boundaries, collects (Perlman, 2016). Those boundaries are defined by their elevation. There are many factors that can change as a result from a shift in an urban watershed. The degradation of a watershed can be devastating

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    The Road Poem

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    Two miles closer to the river, birds begin their flight back to their nest. The chilling breeze begins to die down, and the crickets start to chirp. An abandoned sail boat is tied around a tree. The ground is saturated from the winter storms, and mud stains appear among the trees. The sunlight can barely be seen through the canopy. Deep in the swamp, a loud “thwack” is heard echoing off of the cypress trees. Two young men, Daniel Glaze and Jim Puckett, have been boar hunting all evening. The duo

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    Why Did Johnstown Happen

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    The Johnstown flood of 1889 is often remembered as the worst disaster that was caused by dam failure in America’s history. Over 2000 lives were lost, and about 17 million dollars in property damage was done to the town of Johnstown. Many of the leading industrialists of the 19th century were members of the club that owned the South Fork dam in 1889, drawing in nationwide attention. The relief effort was one of the first huge non-wartime disasters for the American Red Cross. Once again in the years

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