In this podcast we discuss the flooding issues that levees and dams can cause.
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Remember, knowledge is power, especially when it comes to protecting and maximizing your real estate investments.
In this podcast we discuss the flooding issues that levees and dams can cause.
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Remember, knowledge is power, especially when it comes to protecting and maximizing your real estate investments.
Please help me welcome. He's a six foot three sophomore from Covington, Georgia, a parade, first team, all American rivals, five star recruit. Please put your hands together and welcome the flood insurance guru, the incomparable Mr Chris Green. Welcome, welcome. Welcome
Speaker 2:back to the flood guru podcast. My name is Chris Green, president and owner of the flood insurance guru.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Today we're going to be discussing levees and dams and are they actually creating additional flooding? Levees and dams have played a big role in flood protection all the way back to the 1850s
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Speaker 2:as they were built on the Mississippi River to help protect communities all the way from south east United States around the bay bound, the New Orleans area, all the way up to des Moines, Iowa. You know, these have been crucial parts of protecting some of these communities. However, even all the way back into the 1850s Charles, Charles Elliott even warn that these dams and these levies could be creating flooding issues in other communities that couldn't necessarily afford these levies and dams. And so today that's what we want to discuss. You know, levees and dams are very big and very crucial in areas like Houston, Texas, St Louis, Missouri, De Moines, Iowa, even parts of Memphis, Tennessee that are along these rivers. You know, these have been very important while what happens with levies because as long as you have a lovey bill evenly on both sides, it protects some of those communities. As the water rises, you know, those communities don't flood. And what happens is levies, when they're built in there of the amount of water, they can go down a stream or river or a certain opening. So what happens is many times that come backlog water upstream, which can cause love flooding as we've seen in 2019 on the Missouri River and the Mississippi River, you know, the Missouri River cresting five times in five months for the first one of the first times in history. So as you can see, you know, having these levees can really cause an issue upstream and areas that may not have them because of the redirection of water. Yes, it might be protected that one community, but it might be flooding other communities. Another issue where levies can create major problems is when they're not built evenly. So let's say you've got one community on one side of the Mississippi River and you've got another one on the other side, and one side decides to build higher levees because they have the resources and funding to do so. So as they do that, when the border comes in that of course that higher community is protected, but what happens is then the lovey situation starts to flood that lower, creating a lot of flooding and housing and things aren't there. Because what happens is when levies are put in place, a lot of people start to build near these levees. And so when they do flood, a lot of these houses flooding. Now, uh, one major solution really here is what's called setback lobbies. Now, we don't have setback levees in the u s uh, these are popular in areas like Holland. Now, what setback levies are, you know, we have levies that are built rob on the rivers or ride along the creeks. Well, in Holland they have what's called levee setback Levy, sit or set back a good distance. Um, maybe it's, it's a hundred yards, maybe it's 200 yards. What happens is, you know, when the rivers overflow, they overflow up until these levies and these levers can actually do a better job of protecting. But what it can also do is it allows us floodwater to company these floodplains, maybe these wetland areas and preserve these areas that help. A lot of nature survived there. But what it also does is it protects those areas along the levies that should be floodplains where people should be building in. Um, and what the setback Levy does though is it still protects the communities because it gives that bigger buffer of water when it comes to overflow of the river in the streams. You know, floodways, you know, would let me be better served if they were at the end of the floodways and not just at the edge of the river. So I said this is something that's very popular in Holland is not in the u s so when it comes to these levies and it comes to these dams, you know they do cause of redirection of water and they can cause a lot of flooding and other areas that may not be protected by levees and dams. So do levies and dams actually cause flooding? Yes, they can. And other communities that don't have the resources and the funding to protect themselves. That concludes today's episode on levies and dams. Are they actually causing more flooding? Remember, if you get questions about flood insurance, maybe you live near Levee, maybe you live near dam, maybe you're in areas like Houston, Texas and St Louis, Missouri, De Moines, Iowa, New Orleans, Louisiana, and you want to figure out what's your best options are when it comes to flood insurance and mitigating your property. Please reach out to us, flood insurance, guru.com good. Our Youtube channel or Facebook page, the flood insurance guru, or we do our daily flood education videos. You can also give us a call,(205) 451-4294 as I said, my name's Chris Green, president, owner of the flood insurance guru, and I want to say thank you for tuning in to today's episode of the Flood Guru podcast.