Impacts of flooding
- Created by: eviedeehan
- Created on: 09-03-24 10:37
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- Impacts of Flooding
- environmental
- soils - riverbeds and banks are eroded, sediment can block the river
- ecosystems - destroy vegetation and uproot them - destroys harvest and agricultural land - impacts animals that use it for food and shelter, may have to migrate
- socio-economic impacts
- economic - businesses close, loss of income if workers cannot get there, shops lose stock
- insurance companies pay out to those who have suffered - 2015 Cumbrian Floods, £500 million, local economy lost £200 million
- roads and bridges are damaged
- 100 bridges damaged , road and rail suspended in 2015 Cumbrian flood
- 2015 Cumbrian Floods - 42,000 no power, 5000 flooded, £150 million damage to homes
- economic - businesses close, loss of income if workers cannot get there, shops lose stock
- environmental
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