Flood basin

A flood basin is a ditch that has been dug around a town, for example, or created by dikes and is intended to protect it from severe flooding in the event of a flood. This form of flood protection is part of technical flood protection .

There are flood channels, for example, in:

Flood basin in Landshut on June 3, 2013

• Bad Oeynhausen ( Werre )
• Cham
• Dresden ( Kaditz flood channel )
• Glauchau
• Hildesheim
• Waldenburg (Saxony)
• Landshut ( flood basin Landshut )
• Magdeburg ( Elbe / Elbe flood canal / Pretziener weir )
• Chub
• Leipzig
• Zagreb (see Odra Canal )
• Rees on the Lower Rhine

See also

• Flood ditch
• Flood

Web links

• Flood basin Landshut on the website of the Landshut Water Management Office
• https://www.stadt-rees.de/tourismus-freizeit/rhein/flutmulde/ on the website of the city of Rees

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ecclesiastical lands and possessions. In: Hildesheimer Geschichte (n) 815 - 1945. Retrieved on April 18, 2018 .