In many watersheds, the frequency of flooding has greatly increased in the past 20 years, mainly due to changes in the hydrology as a result of farming and urbanization. Human habitation of floodplains causes floods to be perceived as destructive, but the actual destructiveness of a flood depends on what human interference there has been in the watershed and what humans have put in the floodplain area. The objective of this investigation is to predict the recurrence intervals and percent chance of various flows for a river.
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Type Book ChapterPub Date 4/1/2009Stock # PB233X_8