You need a specific example of where flood management strategies have been used. Make sure you can name specific locations and use facts and figures to prove to the examiner that you know your case study well!
Why does it need protecting?
- It has a history of large floods
- Floods in the past have shut down the town's railway station and local roads
- In 1998 the cost of the flood was £12.5 million
- 150 homes and business have been affected
Flood management in Banbury:
- The A361 has been raised
- Floodwall built around motorsport company Prodrive
- New pumping stations to transfer rainwater
- Flow control structures called the Hardwick flow control structure and the Huscote flow control structure (they control the amount of water in the River Cherwell )
- A Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) habitat with ponds, trees and hedgerows
- Embankment made from soil and is 4.5m high
- The borrow area. It's where the soil for the embankment came from and is now a small reservoir that stores water that otherwise would have caused the river to burst its bank.
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