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  2. Flood control - Wikipedia

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    Flood control (or flood mitigation, protection or alleviation) methods are used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters. [1][2] Flooding can be caused by a mix of both natural processes, such as extreme weather upstream, and human changes to waterbodies and runoff. Flood control methods can be either of the structural type ...

  3. Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel

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    Pressure control water tank. The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel (Japanese: 首都圏外郭放水路, Hepburn: shutoken gaikaku hōsuiro), popularly known as G-Cans, is an underground water infrastructure project in Kasukabe, Saitama, Japan. It is the world's largest underground flood water diversion facility, built to ...

  4. Floodland (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Floodland is a 2022 city-building game developed by Vile Monarch and published by Ravenscourt. [1] It was released on November 15, 2022 for Microsoft Windows. [2] In the game, players control a civilization of people as they attempt to survive in a devastated world flooded as a result of climate change.

  5. The Molasses Flood - Wikipedia

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    The Molasses Flood's first game was The Flame in the Flood, a survival game set in a post-apocalyptic river landscape, which was released in 2016 for Windows, macOS, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. The game received positive reviews from critics and players and was nominated for several awards. [4]

  6. Latest plan for Ala Wai flood control reaches $1B

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    Nov. 26—The price tag, however, was placed at over $1 billion—triple the estimated cost of the project just five years ago. The Army Corps of Engineers and the city have unveiled the latest ...

  7. Yu the Great - Wikipedia

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    Yu the Great or Yu the Engineer was a legendary king in ancient China who was credited with "the first successful state efforts at flood control ", [1] his establishment of the Xia dynasty, which inaugurated dynastic rule in China, and for his upright moral character. [2][3] He figures prominently in the Chinese legend titled "Great Yu Controls ...

  8. Flood (Halo) - Wikipedia

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    The Flood is a fictional parasitic alien lifeform and one of the primary antagonists in the Halo multimedia franchise. First introduced in the 2001 video game Halo: Combat Evolved, it returns in later entries in the series such as Halo 2, Halo 3, and Halo Wars. The Flood is driven by a desire to infect any sentient life of sufficient size ...

  9. Yolo Bypass - Wikipedia

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    Flood control is the main purpose of the Yolo Bypass. When the flowrate of the Sacramento River exceeds approximately 55,000 cubic feet per second (93,000 m 3 /min), the excess is released into the Yolo Bypass at the passive Fremont Weir, [9]: 548 near that river's confluence with the Feather River. The Fremont Weir, which lies along the south ...