AQA Geography Soft Engineering
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- Created on: 29-03-13 15:01
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- Case Study: Soft Engineering - River Quaggy restoration scheme, UK
- Social
- Reduced risk to 600 homes and businesses
- Can collect 85,000m3 (3 Olympic pools)
- Flood zones don't save people in poorer areas
- Reduced risk to 600 homes and businesses
- Environmental
- Artificial channels built for diversion
- Environment agency - more sustainable
- New lake and floodplains created - collect naturally
- Diverse environment for wildlife
- Economic
- Park lowered and shaped
- Flood management and park quality improved
- WHAT?
- Afforestation - interception - slows down water reaching river
- Contour ploughing and ***** farming- reduce runoff
- Floodplain zoning - some areas allowed to flood naturally
- Forecasting floods and warnings shelter and protect
- River restoration scheme - to original stat before being managed
- Wetland & river bank conservation schemes
- Political
- Won 2007 natural environment category
- Introduce schemes to do less later
- might not always work
- Social
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