The diagrams below show how houses can be protected in areas which are prone to flooding. Write a report for a university, lecturer describing the information shown below. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

These sequences of pictures illustrate the protection from flooding in the residences in some places. In general, there is a step back

that is

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set up to be a barrier at the shore, and there is a long internal ponding for irrigating the heavy water in case of rain and to prevent landslides from the higher

level

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of the land. To start with the first picture, there is the stopbank that consists of a freeboard and the base was connected to the internal irrigation with a flood gate and the berm. From a closer view, it can be seen that the building,

it

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could protect the 300 mm-free freeboards and the building

was

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increased the height

level

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with 3 stands from the ground

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.

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, when the water came

to

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higher than that

level

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, it could bear with the raised building. As the illustration shows that water could come to the system of protection in two directions, the first one is the internal runoff and the

last

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one is from the river or the lower drainage area. It is

closed

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to the house.