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Old 06-01-2011, 07:50 PM
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I think that one of the reasons embankments are not used is that our rivers are either in deep gullies or dry when not in flood. Usually you go over a bridge and the river may be 10's of meters below but in flood the massive amounts of water moving breaks the banks onto the low lying land. It takes a huge amount of water to get the rivers out of their banks but thats what happens in this sort of event.
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