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{{Short description|New Orleans flood control project}} ...Project''' ('''Southeast Louisiana Project''', or '''SELA''') is a flood control project by the [[US Army Corps of Engineers]] to protect the New Orleans di ...

{{short description|Flood control structure}} ...|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304070353/http://www.tmcd.org/flood/works.asp|archivedate=2016-03-04}}</ref> ...

The [[United States]] '''Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act''' of 1954 ({{USPL|83|566}}) is a United States statute. It [[Image:Baker Flood Structure 6 Overview.JPG|thumb|Baker River Watershed Floodwater Retarding S ...

...uses a relief map (cast in reinforced concrete) of the Lac qui Parle Flood Control System and the Minnesota River Valley; the kitchen shelter; and the sanitat {{authority control}} ...

...the wake of two major flooding events: a 1971 flood event and a major 1973 flood which ravaged the [[Green Brook]] and [[Raritan River]] basins, causing mil [[Image:BB Flood Control.jpg|thumb|267px|The proposed flood control measures in Bound Brook, New Jersey]] ...

[[File:OswegoRiverNewJerseyJune1939.JPG|thumb|right|300px|June 1939 [[Work Projects Administration|WPA]] construction project on the Oswego River at the [[Coun ...ersey)|Chatsworth Rd/County Route 679]] crosses the Oswego River. The 1939 flood occurred despite the [[Harrisville Dam]] being in place since 1932.]] ...

...as the '''Flood Control Act''' ('''FCA'''). Typically, they are enacted to control irrigation because of floods or other natural disasters and are administere .../ep870-1-29/entire.pdf|volume=EP 870-1-29|title=The Evolution of the Flood Control Act of 1936|first=Joseph L.|last=Arnold|publisher=United States Army Corps ...

...version''' (also known as the '''Assiniboine River Floodway''') is a water control structure on the [[Assiniboine River]] near [[Portage la Prairie]], [[Manit ...uld have disastrous effects if left to flood southern Manitoba. During the flood of spring 2011, the Portage Diversion handled roughly half the flow of [[Ni ...

...working on a 50-year program to eliminate most flooding from a [[100-year flood]] in the populated areas for which the CCRFCD is responsible. ...6 approved a quarter cent sales tax to fund construction of regional flood control facilities. The first project began in 1988. ...

| shorttitle = Flood Control Act of 1944 ...g the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for other purposes. ...

...[Flood control in the Netherlands|flood control]] and [[land reclamation]] projects: the [[Delta Works]] and the [[Zuiderzee Works]], were declared one of the ...

...small community of [[Arkabutla, Mississippi|Arkabutla]]. It is one of four Flood Damage Reduction reservoirs in northern [[Mississippi]], the others being [ ...essee|forecast office]] in [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] issued a [[flash flood watch]] through June 10 for areas of seven northwestern Mississippi countie ...

[[File:Geofront_Temple^_首都圏外郭放水路_-_panoramio.jpg|thumb|Pressure control water tank]] ...the world's largest underground flood water diversion facility, built to [[Flood mitigation|mitigate]] overflowing of the city's major waterways and rivers ...

...cts across the [[American West]]. He recorded the progress of construction projects as well as USRS machinery and personnel. The agency also asked Lubken to ph Traveling with his large camera and glass-plate negatives, he documented 25 projects in 17 Western States. After leaving the Reclamation Service in 1917, Lubke ...

...they were funded almost entirely by local tax initiatives, unlike similar projects elsewhere which were funded by the [[Federal government of the United State The 1913 flood has been ascribed{{by whom|date=October 2014}} in part to the 1912 eruption ...

{{Short description|Flood control measure}} ...ies of [[river]]s, [[stream]]s, [[lake]]s or [[bay]]s to protect against [[flood]]ing and, in some cases, downstream [[erosion]] by storing water for a limi ...

|image = 2010 Pakistan flood Khewali by Landsat-5 2010-08-12 small.jpg ...]]<ref name=Dawn>{{cite news|last1=Khan|first1=Mohammad Hussain|title=High flood to hit Guddu barrage on 19th, Sukkur barrage a day later|url=https://www.da ...

...to control water flow into the [[River Chenab]] for irrigation and [[flood control]]. * [[Chenab_River#Dams|Chenab river dams and hydroelectric projects]] ...

...wide, and runs for just over 50 miles.<ref>[http://www.magicvalley.com/app/projects/riverofstone/ "River of Stone"], Magic Valley website. Retrieved June, 2014 ...loor. The canyon's value as a farming area diminished after [[irrigation]] projects made agriculture practical in the surrounding areas in the early 20th centu ...

...exceeded {{convert|1700|cuft/s|m3/s|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Flood Control Works |website=Prairiewaternews.ca |url=http://www.prairiewaternews.ca/wate File:SDControlStructure.JPG|Shellmouth Dam Control Structure ...