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Floods and Fire
Floods and Fire
Floods and Fire
management
Aditya kumar
160040058
b.Arch 10 th sem
Contents
● Introduction
● Types of floods
● Causes
● Effects
● Flood prone areas
● Flood management
Definition
● Flood is overflow of excess water that
submerges land and inflow of tide onto land.
● Most frequent and deadliest
● O ccurs when the geomorphic equilibrium in
the river system is disturbed because of-
◦ Intrinsic threshold
◦ Extrinsic threshold
Types of floods
● Flash floods
● River floods
● Coastal Floods
● Urban Flood
Causes of flood
● Natural
◦ Heavy rains
◦ Melting of ice during volcano eruption
◦ Undersea earthquake
● Man-made
◦ Bank erosion
◦ Breach of dam/barrage/embankment
Causes of flood
Causes of flood
FLOODS IMPACTS
● Human Loss
● Property Loss
● Affects the Major Roads
● Disruption of Air /Train /Bus services
● Spread of W ater-borne C ommunicable
Diseases
● Communication Breakdown
● Electricity Supply C ut off
● Economic and Social Disruption
● Increase in Air /W ater Pollution
INDIA FLOOD PRONE AREA
The macro-flood zones of India may be broadly
grouped into the following zones:
● PRIO RIT Y - II
● ACTIVITY LIMITED TO LEVELS CORRESPONDING TO 25
YEARS FLOOD FREQUENCY A N D DRAINAGE CONGESTION
FOR 10 YEARS RAINFALL FREQUENCY.