Elevate the furnace, water heater, air conditioner and other utilities. Install "check valves" in sewer traps to prevent flood water back ups.

Installing better flood defences such as flood barriers, sea walls and increased pumping capacity · Installing devices to prevent seawater from backflowing into ...

Some of the common techniques used for flood control are installation of rock berms, rock rip-raps, sandbags, maintaining normal slopes with vegetation or ...

The Best Methods To Prevent Flooding And Water Damage · 1. Install Watertight Flood Shield Barriers · 2. Install Backflow Prevention Valves · 3. Direct ...

Keep your flood plan in a safe place with other essential items, for example spare medication, important documents and contact details.

Learn about and revise river management, and hard and soft engineering strategies to prevent flooding, with GCSE Bitesize Geography (OCR).

Flood risk prevention is aimed at avoiding or removing a flood risk. This can be achieved, for example, by avoiding building in vulnerable areas prone to ...

Preventing damage caused by floods by avoiding the construction of houses and industries in present and future flood-prone areas.

Learn about and revise river management, and hard and soft engineering strategies to prevent flooding, with GCSE Bitesize Geography (OCR).

1) Water Gate: Rapid Response Flood Control System. Water gate is a clever PVC device that uses the pressure of oncoming water to stabilize itself.