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flooding
A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrology and are of significant concern in agriculture, civil engineering and public health. Human changes to the environment often increase the intensity and frequency of flooding, for example land use changes such as deforestation and removal of wetlands, changes in waterway course or flood controls such as with levees, and larger environmental issues such as climate change and sea level rise. In particular climate change's increased rainfall and extreme weather events increases the severity of other causes for flooding, resulting in more intense floods and increased flood risk.Flooding may occur as an overflow of water from water bodies, such as a river, lake, or ocean, in which the water overtops or breaks levees, resulting in some of that water escaping its usual boundaries, or it may occur due to an accumulation of rainwater on saturated ground in an areal flood. While the size of a lake or other body of water will vary with seasonal changes in precipitation and snow melt, these changes in size are unlikely to be considered significant unless they flood property or drown domestic animals.
Floods can also occur in rivers when the flow rate exceeds the capacity of the river channel, particularly at bends or meanders in the waterway. Floods often cause damage to homes and businesses if they are in the natural flood plains of rivers. While riverine flood damage can be eliminated by moving away from rivers and other bodies of water, people have traditionally lived and worked by rivers because the land is usually flat and fertile and because rivers provide easy travel and access to commerce and industry. Flooding can lead to secondary consequences in addition to damage to property, such as long-term displacement of residents and creating increased spread of waterborne diseases and vector-bourne disesases transmitted by mosquitos.
Hello,
There was flooding at my Dad’s house which has given us electrical problems and no central heating or hot water. I’d be very grateful for any advice what to do.
I have made a video of the problem:
https://sendvid.com/dsxmtsko
The flooding led to a fuse which made the green switch in...
Look at the news ...the small dam above the town is about to breech. Town being
evacuated. BBC news what a terrible thing to have to endure. Rob Foster aka
centralheatking
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I’m new to this site but hoping someone can throw some light on a difficult problem on kitchen drainage.
This is in my father-in-law’s 4th floor flat in Paris, in a modern block (1990’s)
The roots of the problem are multiple.
Really poor installation with an almost horizontal run of...
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A customer of mine has a Sami com, it’s in a large restaurant kitchen. It appears to work when the installer goes to site to test it but they then report that it stops working later in the day and starts to flood. I’m going to look tomorrow for them and see why might be wrong. I’ve known...
Hi all,
forgive me if I'm getting my terminology wrong but I'm not a plumber & I'm having a nightmare here.
I have an open connection between my boiler overflow pipe & the main communal sink drain for my block. As in the connection between the two is not sealed.
I know this now because we...
Hi,
I have had some great advice on this forum which was very helpful.
I need to remove a dishwasher without flooding the kitchen. Please can anyone help me? Images atatched
Thanks.
Some time ago I had my toilet clogged. I have my flush and pipes behind the wall. The pipes are build in the way that one goes in another. The pipes was clogged below the merging point. When the water didn't want to go, it found its way through the merging point. And now I have a problem...
Hi all I moved this from public to private...
Morning guys, just after a little advice on a WB 15ri. Long story short the condense was fitted into a rain water pipe that had plants growing down from the gutter above... It blocked and the boiler backed up until it flooded. So it's the second...
Morning guys, just after a little advice on a WB 15ri. Long story short the condense was fitted into a rain water pipe that had plants growing down from the gutter above... It blocked and the boiler backed up until it flooded. So it's the second time it has happened, WB replaced some bits under...
boilerbrigade
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Can anyone point me in the right direction here. When I tip a bowl of washing up water down the sink, it starts coming up through the flagstones on my patio and out through where the house joins the floor if that makes sense. It's not how my mums drains are, i.e. the waste pipe comes out of a...
amibari
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garden
help
kitchen
kitchen sink
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sink
washing
washing machine
water
My Thermflow unit with integral header tank has the 18mm overflow pipe (about 75mm below rim of tank) running horizontally for about 1200mm before dropping about 1200 mm and continuing with fall to outside.
The float valve failed and the header tank overflowed flooding the house while we were...
Extension_build
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ball valve
float valve
flooding
header
header tank
overflow
overflow pipe
pipe
pipes
tank
valve
water
I want to put in an outside tap so need to go through the wall under the kitchen sink. When it comes to drilling the hole would anyone recommend a masonry drill bit or a small core drill and for 15mm copper pipework what size hole would you recommend in the wall. I know i should sleeve the 15mm...
Leoki
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18mm
22mm
check valve
copper
damage
drilling
external
flooding
gas
job
kitchen
outside tap
overflow
overflow pipe
pipe
pipes
pipework
seal
sink
system
tap
valve
wall
Whilst I am aware you can take the dip tube out of an oso cylinder to increase its capacity,can the same be done with a Megaflow?
Obviously you have to fit an expansion vessel aswell.
Doug.
doug
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air
cylinder
expansion
expansion vessel
fitting
flooding
flow
hot
hot water
job
mains
megaflo
megaflow
pressure
question
remove
store
system
unvented
vented
vessel
water
Hi I have a question do you think that Stormbag - Alternative Sandbag storm bag can help us in case of great flooding, I mean that those bag won't be carry away buy the force of the water ?
Adding an extra rad to a room, combi boiler, 10mm plastic pipe, two pipe system. Intending to tee off nearby rad. question is, don't want to drain off the system (inhibitor) so is there another way of fitting the tees without flooding the living room?
John t
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adding
bleed
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combi
combi boiler
drain
fitting
flooding
installation
pipe
plastic pipe
plug
question
radiator
system
tee
water
work
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