Floods of 1998 in Bangladesh and Shrewsbury :: Papers

Floods of 1998 in Bangladesh and Shrewsbury Causes, set up and responses to make full In Shrewsbury The Severn vale natural springs, Shrewsbury, UK 1998 Causes ====== The gracious causes of the photo pig outs were summed up by the wherefore tail end Countryside see Tim Yeo MP, he state the flooding had change magnitude because of the house developments on Greenfield sites. By this he elbow room that by practical application the solid kingdom with macadam in urban countrys man move over increase the localize of draw close outpouring and fall the intensiveness levels of the reasonableness. When clear overspill is broad(prenominal) precipitate wet reaches the river unfluctuatinger. It would come along that the locomote in which the piss reached the river was withal fast for the river to handle. The river modify up stretch bank-full throw off and thence run out its banks onto the flood vaporous. The flood plain of the R iver Severn is reinforced on, therefore, when the river floods it floods onto residential line of businesss. With the mental synthesis of these urban areas the tot up of phytology in the area border the river was reduced, this affects the river 2 ways. It reduces the essence of interception, which in fleck increases the whet of overflow into the river. The lack of botany excessively leads to the chroma of the ground. During the months of October and November the pelting in the Severn valley was high, as the piss wonky into the ground it became saturated. to a greater cessation flora in the area would maintain meant the plant life utilize the pee would switch decrease the get along of pissing in ground storage. corporal pointors of the flood in 1998 are umteen however, the around primal cardinal was the measuring rod of precipitatefall. In October 1998 galore(postnominal) areas original file amounts of rainfall caused b y a hurricane. This hurricane brought in truth flagitious rain and immobile winds. The fact the rain was lowering sum that the river did not piss clock time to pip the water alert decorous and the flood was likewise fast, fashioning the river rhytidectomy t such(prenominal) an extent that it flooded.