24 Sep Flashcards
Case study
The Shannon flood 2015-2016
What happend
Storm Desmond largest smound of rainfall during winter 2015 2016.
River Shannon worst affected
Limerick, athlone, Carrick on Shannon badly affected
Why did it occur
Not prepared (lack of plannig(
High levels of rainfall
Buildings on flood plains
Immediate impacts
Thousands of homes flooded
Livestock were lost
Farmland flooded
Government responses
Army helped to set up sandbags and 24 hour pumping
85 million giving to repair roads and infrastructure
Long term solutions
Shannon flood risk group
Better flood defences put in place
Well drained
Attract settlement
Badly drained
Little settlement
Patterns of drainage
Dendritic
Trellis
Radial
Deranged
Dendritic
Many tributary systems combine before joining the main river
Trellis
Smaller tributaries feed into the river from steep slopes on mountains
Radial
The streams radiate outwards from a central high point
Deranged
no clear pattern to the rivers
