- Floodgates, also
called stop
gates, are
adjustable gates used to
control water flow in
flood barriers, reservoir, river, stream, or
levee systems. They...
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management of
flood water movement, such as
redirecting flood run-off
through the use of
floodwalls and
flood gates,
rather than
trying to
prevent floods altogether...
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intense floods and
increased flood risk. The
types of
floods include areal flooding,
riverine flooding,
coastal flooding and
urban flooding.
There is...
- was
Buiksloot Flood Gate,
which would normally be open.
North of that was
Purmerend Lock.
North of
Alkmaar was the
Zijpersluis Flood Gate, at Zijpersluis...
- In 1914 a
large flood gate was
constructed by
Stupp Brothers of St. Louis, Missouri. The
flood gate is
known as the "Big
Subway Gate", and it was designed...
- to
escape the
flood. This
flood also
prompted the M****achusetts city of
Lowell to
install a
modern (albeit temporary)
flood control gate comprising square...
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times of
flood,
monitors their piers for
scouring and stability. The
Corps of
Engineers has two 25-ton
cranes used to lift and
lower the
flood gates. The...
-
provide a
flood defence capable of
resisting a once in 1000 year
surge tide at a base date of 2030. The
concept of the
rising sector gates was devised...
-
brewery put a new
flood protocol in place. A
flood gate is put
across the
front door, and
customers are
served in the back bar. Once the
flood waters reach...
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Despite efforts to open
three important flood gates to
alleviate the
rising water by
diverting it, the
flood level continued to rise
until it hit the...
