River

resulting in the great flood of 1913 (Williams, 2013). Though the rain would begin to fall on Easter Sunday, March 23, (And would fall for three days straight) by Monday – even after the local newspaper the Piqua Leader Dispatch reported the “Great Miami River will reach flood stage by nightfall” - those living in the lowest lying areas of the city would ignore the warnings. Why? Area historian and author Scott Trostel stated “crowds had gathered along the North Main Street levee in Piqua…

Beavers are most well known for their distinctive home-building that can be seen in rivers and streams. The beavers dam is built from twigs, sticks, leaves and mud and are surprisingly strong. Here the beavers can catch their food and swim in the water. Beavers are nocturnal animals existing in the forests of Europe and North America (the Canadian beaver is the most common beaver). Beavers use their large, flat shaped tails, to help with dam building and it also allows the beavers to swim at…

Connecticut River Valley and the Hudson River Valley got carved when the glaciers passed through their scraping rock. Both valley’s also got carved when the glaciers retreated and melted, and passed through the valley’s. The Hudson River formed when 10,000 years ago, the dam that held all the water broke, and formed the Hudson River. The Connecticut River also formed when another dam, the dam at Middletown Ct broke, and the river emptied very quickly, which formed the Connecticut River, an old…

themselves quickly. The Betsie River was chosen as a breeding ground for the exoctic salmon. They entered into a river that…

such type of flooding, riverine flooding, occurs when a body of water exceeds its capacity and it overflows its banks. Communities in close proximity to natural waterways, such as Beatty, Chiloquin, and Sprague River, are most susceptible to this type of flooding. A specific type of river flooding, shallow area flooding, can also occur in Klamath County. This type of flooding affects low-lying areas that would be inundated by a flood with a water depth of three feet or less. Yet another type of…

discharge generated by an outburst flood from a glacial lake. Furthermore, modern Thames River occupies a small area during large floods and is clearly a misfit river channel. However, with current field evidence we cannot determine whether drainage was a single event of repeated lake fill and drain cycles. Moraine-dammed…

and provides numbers to back his claims. Barcott’s article is from Outsiders magazine. His audience consists of people that are experiencing the effects of dams on rivers firsthand; people that can’t partake in their preferred recreational activities, or who can imagine not being able to, because the organic existence of these rivers has been injured. Because of this, Barcott uses dramatic figurative language and a story-like structure to appeal to his audience…

They provide us with a variety of services, assets, and benefits. Estuaries are partially enclosed bodies of water found along coasts. A body of water can only be classified as an Estuary if its waters are brackish. They occur when freshwater from a river or stream meet and mix with salt water from the ocean, Estuaries and the land surrounding them are places where land transitions to sea, and freshwater transitions to salt water. Estuaries are places for not only scientific research but for…

1. a) Roles of the riparian zone include filtering and buffering water through the various vegetation, acting as flood protection areas, trapping sediment and preventing erosion (though the roots of riparian plants) before they reach the water course, helping maintain local water table levels, shading by the riparian plants and keeping stream temperatures low during the summer for the fish, acting as a corridor for land mammals (e.g. bears, deer, squirrels), and overall maintaining biological…

Boscastle is a village located in the county of Cornwall in the south east of the UK on the coast. It has a natural harbour within a narrow ravine and is the point at which two rivers, the Valency and its tributary the Jordan, converge. On the 16th of August 2004, these rivers flooded which caused the destruction of many buildings and roads. A flood is a natural event in which water flows over its normal limit, submerging usually dry land. There were many physical factors which led to the floods…