2013 Minden Ontario Flood Case Study

Floods
Focussing on the 2013 Minden, Ontario flood
A flood is a large amount of water that covers an area that is normally dry. Floods can occur almost anywhere, but they happen more often on floodplains and on places close to the ocean. The land that floods regularly is called a floodplain. It is called coastal flooding when a large storm or wave from the ocean causes flooding in the cities inland. Some floods take days to develop, while others take minutes to form these are called flash floods.
Floods can be a very dangerous natural disaster because a flood has the power to move cars, buildings, and cause massive damage to life and property. Even the small floods that are only 30 centimetres or so can do massive damage to houses and if the

They have sewer systems in place to collect water. If there is a flood, the government can send out water gates. Water gates are triangular bags that hold water; they work because the weight of the water is on a long flap on the bottom of the bag. The weight on the flap holds the rest of the bag up so that it can hold the water.
Case study: the flooding that occurred in Minden Hills in the spring of 2013, flooded the downtown core. The picturesque cottage town has the Gull River flowing through it. The river overflowed in April because of many reasons: a couple of days of rain, the third largest amount in over a century, but it also happened because the frost in the ground stopped the water from going into the Earth, the lakes and rivers being full from the spring thaw, and the rapid

The downtown was flooded because it was built on a floodplain. Back when the town of Minden was founded, there were not any laws about building houses near rivers. The houses were so close to the water that there was massive loss of and damage to property. In Minden, there is a record of flooding; there were floods in 1913, 1928, 1943, 1950, and 1983. As of 1975, the government started the Flood Damage Reduction Program (FDRP), which is a program that finds areas that are vulnerable to flooding and they prohibit building on that part of the