flood control facility
C18289
concept
A flood control facility is an engineered structure or system designed to manage, divert, store, or reduce excess water flow to prevent or mitigate flooding in surrounding areas.
Observed surface forms (25)
- hydraulic infrastructure ×5
- hydraulic_structure ×4
- river regulation system ×3
- flood alleviation scheme ×2
- flood barrier ×2
- flood mitigation dam ×2
- flood-control basin ×2
- engineered floodplain ×1
- flood bypass ×1
- flood control basin ×1
- flood control tunnel ×1
- flood defence infrastructure ×1
- flood defence system ×1
- flood protection area ×1
- flood protection barrier ×1
- flood protection infrastructure ×1
- flood protection landform ×1
- flood relief channel ×1
- flood-control green space ×1
- flood-control infrastructure ×1
- flood-control system ×1
- flood-mitigation landscape ×1
- levee ×1
- sluice complex ×1
- wildlife and flood-control basin ×1
Instances (38)
- Water Conservation Areas
- Town Weir, Guildford via concept surface "hydraulic_structure"
- Santillana Reservoir (upper basin connection) via concept surface "hydraulic infrastructure"
- Saint Petersburg Dam via concept surface "flood protection barrier"
- Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area (adjacent) via concept surface "wildlife and flood-control basin"
- Jubilee River via concept surface "flood relief channel"
- Middle Level Main Drain via concept surface "flood defence infrastructure"
- Colorado River Storage and Regulation System via concept surface "river regulation system"
- Sepulveda Basin via concept surface "flood control basin"
- Mytholmroyd Flood Alleviation Scheme via concept surface "flood alleviation scheme"
- Whittier Narrows via concept surface "flood-control basin"
- Wivenhoe Dam via concept surface "flood mitigation dam"
- Kangaroo Creek Reservoir via concept surface "flood mitigation dam"
- Lower Colorado River water management system via concept surface "river regulation system"
- Dutch Delta Works region via concept surface "flood protection area"
- Pandoh–Baggi tunnel via concept surface "hydraulic infrastructure"
- Haringvliet sluices via concept surface "sluice complex"
- Limmat Canal (side channels) via concept surface "hydraulic infrastructure"
- Hull Tidal Surge Barrier via concept surface "flood barrier"
- Corktown Common via concept surface "flood protection landform"
- Yolo Bypass via concept surface "flood bypass"
- San Antonio River Tunnel via concept surface "flood control tunnel"
- Murray River lock and weir system via concept surface "river regulation system"
- Foss Barrier via concept surface "flood barrier"
- Siel (sluice) facilities via concept surface "flood protection infrastructure"
- Bozdoğan Kemeri water network via concept surface "hydraulic infrastructure"
- Taunton flood alleviation scheme via concept surface "flood alleviation scheme"
- Middleville Dam via concept surface "hydraulic_structure"
- LaBarge Dam via concept surface "hydraulic_structure"
- Spremberg dam on the River Spree via concept surface "hydraulic_structure"
- Milan canal system via concept surface "hydraulic infrastructure"
- Marikina River Park via concept surface "flood-control green space"
- Al-Batha basin via concept surface "flood-control basin"
- Bao Dam via concept surface "flood-control infrastructure"
- Great Ouse flood defence system via concept surface "flood defence system"
- Seine basin flood-control system via concept surface "flood-control system"
- Chulalongkorn University Centenary Park via concept surface "flood-mitigation landscape"
- Texas City Dike via concept surface "levee"