Sentences with phrase «meters of water flooded»

Not exact matches

The LSPWC boss, who recalled that the initial drainage system with a width of 0.6 meters was inadequate to contain the flow of flood water, said the agency had to reconstruct it to a size of 1.2 meters after which massive rehabilitation work commenced on the road.

That is apparently what happened to the 99 villagers of Miaohe, 10 miles (17 kilometers) upstream of the Yangtze, who saw the land behind their homes split into a 655 - foot -(200 - meter --RRB- wide crack last year, soon after the reservoir water level was lowered for the summer floods.

This week, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne personally supervised the release of 41,500 cubic feet (1,175 cubic meters) of water per second over a 60 - hour period to mimic a natural flood that will enlarge existing sandbars.

New Orleans and its surrounding communities endured hours of surging water that quickly toppled inadequate defenses and flooded the region under more than three meters of water in some places.

During flooding episodes, the channel can divert up to 4,000 cubic meters (140,000 cubic feet) of water per second before it reaches the Winnipeg area.

In June 2016, researchers observed firsthand a glacial outburst flood at the Lhotse Glacier near Mount Everest that loosed about 4.8 million cubic miles (about 2 million cubic meters) of water from within the glacier itself.

and «Where was all the water going to come from» so I decided to have a go and try to work out how much water would be needed to allow the World Ocean to rise by just 1 meter, there are two variables that I can not solve, 1 is that the world is curved so as you go up then you need more water for the next meter than you needed for the preceding meter and this is an exponential issue as it gets worse the higher you go, the other is that even though there are many areas where you could get a large rise without any inland flooding, like the «White Cliffs of Dover» then there are also many areas where there would be massive inland flooding, like Holland, so I had to make two assumptions to kill off two variable issues that I can not solve, so assuming that the world is flat, which it's not, and that there would be no inland flooding, and there will be massive inland flooding then using them then I got an answer.

I personally think that top get a 1 meter rise and include the fact that there would be massive inland flooding then you may well need 450,000 cubic kilometers of water to be dumped into the World Ocean.

Indeed it hardly matters whether there's half a meter or only a centimeter of wrongly placed water in a home; it turns out that any interior flooding of whatever amount effectively makes a house useless for its intended purpose.