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  2. Big Bureau Creek - Wikipedia

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    The Big Bureau Creek is a 73-mile-long (117 km) [1] tributary of the Illinois River in north central Illinois. [2] It rises approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of Mendota and flows southwest into Bureau County, turning south at Princeton and then flowing east into the Illinois River floodplain.

  3. Integrated Flood Management - Wikipedia

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    These Early Warning Systems are an essential component of IFM, reducing the risk by allowing stakeholders to prepare for a flood event to reduce or mitigate their impact. Community-based management: Including knowledge on local conditions can help to understand and mitigate the flood risk. In addition, can the engagement of local communities ...

  4. Flood management - Wikipedia

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    The map to the right shows a flood map for the City of York, including the floodplain for a 1 in 100-year flood (dark blue), the predicted floodplain for a 1 in 1000 year flood (light blue) and low-lying areas in need of flood defence (purple). The most sustainable way of reducing risk is to prevent further development in flood-prone areas and ...

  5. Tunnel and Reservoir Plan - Wikipedia

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    Aerial view of Phase II of the McCook Reservoir under construction in 2023. The Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (abbreviated TARP and more commonly known as the Deep Tunnel Project or the Chicago Deep Tunnel) is a large civil engineering project that aims to reduce flooding in the metropolitan Chicago area, and to reduce the harmful effects of flushing raw sewage into Lake Michigan by diverting ...

  6. Flood insurance rate map - Wikipedia

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    These FIRMs are used in identifying whether a land or building is in flood zone and, if so, which of the different flood zones are in effect. In 2004, FEMA began a project to update and digitize the flood plain maps at a yearly cost of $200 million. The new maps usually take around 18 months to go from a preliminary release to the final product.

  7. Risk of Illinois dam breach is under control after once-in-a ...

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    After water overtopped a reservoir dam and forced residents of a small Illinois city to evacuate Tuesday ... Washington County was under a flash flood warning until 4:30 p.m. CT after the region ...

  8. Disaster proclaimed in St. Clair County. Flooding in ... - AOL

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    Mascoutah and Belleville fire departments are on the scene of an area near Illinois Route 158 and Keck Road for a water rescue, according to the St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency. 11:46 ...

  9. Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of the floodway is to reduce flooding at and above Cairo, Illinois, and along the east bank levee opposite the floodway during a major flood. The floodway is between 3 miles (4.8 km) and 15 miles (24 km) wide and is bounded on the east by the 56 miles (90 km) frontline levee between Bird's Point, Missouri and New Madrid, Missouri ...