Flood management measures

• Adjustment of waterway
  
• Afforestation
  
• Amphibious building
  
• Building elevation
  
• Building relocation
  
• Buildings as flood defence
  
• Bypass channel
  
• Canal and rill
  
• Cascading flood compartment system
  
• Coastal setback
  
• Conventional urban drainage systems
  
• Creation of a second dike line
  
• Data collection
  
• Deculverting of watercourses
  
• Dike
  
• Dike reinforcement
  
• Dike relocation
  
• Dredging of watercourse
  
• Dwelling mound
  
• Elaboration of municipal archives on major hazards
  
• Emergency operation centre and personnel
  
• EU Flood Risk Management Directive
  
• Flood detention reservoir
  
• Flood hazard mapping
  
• Flood insurance
  
• Floodplain excavation
  
• Flood proof infrastructure
  
• Flood shelter
  
• Gutter
  
• Hydraulic filling
  
• Hydrological and Meteorological Observatory
  
• Independent commission for flood and disaster risk reduction
  
• Limassol Drainage Master Plan
  
• Living with water - principles
  
• Managed realignment
  
• Multi-layer safety as a central concept for flood protection
  
• Multi-level capacity building
  
• Network of waterways
  
• Permeable paving
  
• Polder
  
• Port restructuring
  
• Pumping station
  
• Raised kerb
  
• Reserve funds
  
• Retention of rainwater in the vicinity of a roundabout
  
• Revetment
  
• Safety margins in new investment
  
• Seawall
  
• Sludge retention tank in Lake Makria
  
• Sluice
  
• Storm surge barrier
  
• Stormwater retention tank
  
• Unused sewers
  
• Urban forest and park
  
• Water square
  
• Wetland and wetland restoration