Oxford Flashcards
1
Q
What rivers
A
Thames and Cherwell
2
Q
What happened in 2007
A
Flash floods
3
Q
How many homes evacuated
A
250
4
Q
What did floods in 2014 cause
A
Trains cancelled overflow of drains
5
Q
What did the floods restrict
A
Access to work And shopping local economy damaged
6
Q
What management strategies used
A
Planting trees , flood walls/embankments , river diversion channels
7
Q
How many trees were planted
A
20 000
8
Q
How much earth excavated to create new channel
A
40 000
9
Q
What are the social issues
A
.Land needed to be sold to create new channel
.construction disrupts lives
.improve foot paths
.sense of security
10
Q
What economic issues
A
.cost £120 million
.1000 homes/ businesses better protected
11
Q
Environmental issues
A
.2000 trees removed will be replanted
.20 hectares of new river habitats ^ biodiversity
