Flood Proofing Methods

Abstract

Alluvial plains and coastal areas are often the most fertile areas on Earth, along with soils of a volcanic origin. They are for this reason optimum areas for human settlements and urban construction because of their gentle topography. When speaking of alluvial terrain, it must be noticed that alluvium (from Latin: alluvies-ei or alluvio-onis: flood; etym., Latin: ab-luo: to wash and abolitus: cancelled, or even ab (Iove) pluvio: from rainy Jupiter—Ancient Greek: ἀνα-λύω or ἁλλύω/ἁνλύω: to melt or to destroy; from ἁνά: above, and λύω: to wash) indicates that this land was formed by floods and the associated river bed migration through millennia. Therefore, one often denotes the area as a floodplain. The coastline or a seashore is the portion of Earth where the land meets the sea or ocean, and the coastal area is the region where the interaction of the sea and land processes occurs.