The Boscastle flood took place, 16 August 2004 in the two villages of Boscastle in United Kingdom. Many cars, buildings were washed into the sea and lots of homes were destroyed because of the disaster caused by heavy rain. After the disaster, the village tried to restore their town and took hard and soft engineering to avoid disaster from future flooding. For hard engineering, they started to widen and lower the river channel to increase capacity, built flood wall to protect the houses from overflow and renewed the culvert in the street, to allow more water through in times of heavy rain. These methods effectively protected immediate area because water was moved away quickly but they were expensive and disrupted nature process. For Soft engineering,
