The flood flow in urbanised areas constitutes a hazard to the population and infrastructure.
No. 234, "Study on the prediction method of the erosion width of cohesive banks by flood flow," March 2005.
Beginning in the 1970s, the Corps applied hydrological transport models to analyze flood flow and water quality of the Mississippi.
Abject poverty in the areas affected by the Rod-Kohi water calls for a rational and scientific management of flood flows.
This flood flow is one of the largest recorded for any river in New Zealand.
"The flood of 1993 demonstrated the need for some form of floodway to provide greater capacity to convey flood flows," the committee said.
Only two-thirds of the original number of gates is opened in July to release flood flow.
The field deployment showed also some unusual features of flood flow in an urban environment linked with some local topographic effects.
The lake's opening to the gulf is sufficient to absorb and dissipate any conceivable volume of flood flow.
The dam was rebuilt in 1916-1917 to better accommodate flood flows.