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- Flood_wall abstract "A flood wall (or floodwall) is a primarily vertical artificial barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway which may rise to unusual levels during seasonal or extreme weather events. Flood walls are mainly used on locations where space is scarce, such as cities or where building levees or dikes (dykes) would interfere with other interests, such as existing buildings, historical architecture or commercial use of embankments.Flood walls are nowadays mainly constructed from pre-fabricated concrete elements.Flood walls often have floodgates which are large openings to provide passage except during periods of flooding, when they are closed. As a flood wall mostly consist of relatively short elements compared to dikes, the connections between the elements are critical to prevent the failure of the flood wall.The substantial costs of flood walls can be justified by the value of commercial property thus protected from damage caused by flooding.Flood walls are almost solely used in cities, notably: Cincinnati, Ohio Cologne, Germany Coralville, Iowa Deventer, the Netherlands East Grand Forks, Minnesota Grand Forks, North Dakota Huntington, West Virginia Kampen, the Netherlands Kansas City, Missouri Louisville, Kentucky Memphis, Tennessee Morgan City, Louisiana New Orleans, Louisiana Nijmegen, the Netherlands Paducah, Kentucky Parkersburg, West Virginia Portsmouth, Ohio Richmond, Virginia Scranton, Pennsylvania South Williamson, Kentucky St. Louis, Missouri Williamson, West Virginia Woodland, WashingtonIn September 2005, following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana, was substantially flooded after its system of levees and flood walls failed due to soil conditions and poor design.".
- Flood_wall thumbnail Zruč_nad_Sázavou,_Ostrovský_potok,_u_Vlašimské_ulice.jpg?width=300.
- Flood_wall wikiPageExternalLink www.deltaworks.org.
- Flood_wall wikiPageID "3039012".
- Flood_wall wikiPageLength "2955".
- Flood_wall wikiPageOutDegree "39".
- Flood_wall wikiPageRevisionID "678640866".
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink 2005_levee_failures_in_Greater_New_Orleans.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Category:Dikes.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Category:Flood_barriers.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Cincinnati.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Cologne.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Coralville,_Iowa.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Deventer.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink East_Grand_Forks,_Minnesota.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Flood.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Floodgate.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Grand_Forks,_North_Dakota.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Huntington,_West_Virginia.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Hurricane_Katrina.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Kampen,_Overijssel.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Kansas_City,_Missouri.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Levee.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Louisville,_Kentucky.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Memphis,_Tennessee.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Morgan_City,_Louisiana.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Netherlands.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink New_Orleans.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Nijmegen.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Paducah,_Kentucky.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Parkersburg,_West_Virginia.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Portsmouth,_Ohio.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Richmond,_Virginia.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink River.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Scranton,_Pennsylvania.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Seawall.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink South_Williamson,_Kentucky.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink St._Louis.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Williamson,_West_Virginia.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink Woodland,_Washington.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink File:Floodwall_in_Sunbury,_Pennsylvania.JPG.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLink File:Zruč_nad_Sázavou,_Ostrovský_potok,_u_Vlašimské_ulice.jpg.
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLinkText "Flood wall".
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLinkText "flood protection wall".
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLinkText "flood wall".
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLinkText "floodwall".
- Flood_wall wikiPageWikiLinkText "floodwalls".
- Flood_wall wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Coastal_management.
- Flood_wall wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:For.
- Flood_wall subject Category:Dikes.
- Flood_wall subject Category:Flood_barriers.
- Flood_wall type Dike.
- Flood_wall type Landform.
- Flood_wall type Redirect.
- Flood_wall comment "A flood wall (or floodwall) is a primarily vertical artificial barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway which may rise to unusual levels during seasonal or extreme weather events.".
- Flood_wall label "Flood wall".
- Flood_wall sameAs Q5460082.
- Flood_wall sameAs m.08mfy7.
- Flood_wall sameAs Q5460082.
- Flood_wall wasDerivedFrom Flood_wall?oldid=678640866.
- Flood_wall depiction Zruč_nad_Sázavou,_Ostrovský_potok,_u_Vlašimské_ulice.jpg.
- Flood_wall isPrimaryTopicOf Flood_wall.