Flood Risk Management 1
Flood Risk Management 1 : "Generally, there are three basic approaches to flood risk management: (1) Avoid using the floodplain for activities other than those compatible with periodic flooding. (2) Minimize damages from floods to the maximum feasible extent by building and maintaining levees, flood walls, dikes, reservoirs, channelization of streams, bypasses, and the like; instituting floodplain development requirements such as land-use controls which minimize new unsafe development in high-risk areas and by retrofitting existing structures; and having robust and effective evacuation plans and warning systems to get the people out of harm's way should the need arise (3) Mitigate losses to those who are subject to flooding through self-help, by providing indemnification through government payments (direct or as a result of litigation), or through forms of public and private insurance". (Galloway, A California Challenge, 2007, 13)
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