Flood management measures

• Adjustment of waterway
  
• Afforestation
  
• Amphibious building
  
• Aquifer recharge
  
• Bioretention area
  
• Budget diversion
  
• Building elevation
  
• Building relocation
  
• Buildings as flood defence
  
• Building without a crawlspace
  
• Bypass channel
  
• Canal and rill
  
• Check valve
  
• Coastal setback
  
• Community involvement
  
• Conventional urban drainage systems
  
• Creation of a second dike line
  
• Data collection
  
• Deculverting of watercourses
  
• Demountable flood protection barrier
  
• Dike
  
• Dike inspection and/or recovery
  
• Dike reinforcement
  
• Dike relocation
  
• Ditch
  
• Dredging of watercourse
  
• Dry-floodproofing technology
  
• Elaboration of municipal archives on major hazards
  
• Emergency exit of buildings above highest flood level
  
• Emergency operation centre and personnel
  
• Emergency supplies and utilities
  
• EU Flood Risk Management Directive
  
• Evacuation plan
  
• Evacuation routes at elevated level
  
• Family emergency planning
  
• Fascine
  
• Filled container
  
• Filter drain
  
• Filter strip
  
• Filter trench
  
• Flexible water level management
  
• Floating agricultural system
  
• Floating building
  
• Floating road
  
• Flood detention reservoir
  
• Flood emergency framework
  
• Flood forecasting and early warning
  
• Flood gate
  
• Flood hazard mapping
  
• Flood insurance
  
• Flood proof infrastructure
  
• Flood shelter
  
• Floodwall
  
• Frame barrier
  
• Freestanding barrier
  
• Government debt instrument
  
• Green roof
  
• Green wall
  
• Gutter
  
• High water mark
  
• Hydraulic filling
  
• Hydrological and Meteorological Observatory
  
• Improved construction site preparation
  
• Increased capacity of sewer/drainage system
  
• Increase of infiltration capacity
  
• Independent commission for flood and disaster risk reduction
  
• International loan
  
• Land use plan / spatial planning
  
• Limassol Drainage Master Plan
  
• Living with water - principles
  
• Maintenance of hydraulic structures of the storm drainage system
  
• Managed realignment
  
• Monitoring and flood forecasting through partnerships
  
• Multi-functional flood defences
  
• Multi-layer safety as a central concept for flood protection
  
• Multi-level capacity building
  
• Municipal flood control plan
  
• Network of waterways
  
• Permeable paving
  
• Polder
  
• Pond
  
• Port restructuring
  
• Prescription on the construction code
  
• Public awareness, information, education and communication
  
• Pumping station
  
• Rain garden
  
• Rainwater disconnection
  
• Rainwater harvesting system
  
• Rainwater storage beneath sports fields
  
• Raised kerb
  
• Red alert exercise
  
• Rescue plan
  
• Reserve funds
  
• Retention of rainwater in the vicinity of a roundabout
  
• Revetment
  
• River Training
  
• Safety margins in new investment
  
• Sandbag wall
  
• Sectional barrier
  
• Sediment replenishment
  
• Sludge retention tank in Lake Makria
  
• Sluice
  
• Soakaway
  
• Social network mapping
  
• Stilt house building
  
• Stormwater harvesting system
  
• Sunken lane
  
• Swale
  
• Tax relief
  
• Tubes
  
• Unused sewers
  
• Urban forest and park
  
• Vulnerability assessment
  
• Water square
  
• Weir
  
• Wet-floodproofing technology
  
• Wetland and wetland restoration
  
• Wharf