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Does river bed dredging, to bring down the water table, have any effect on lowering the flood plain levels?

April 26, 2017bed bring dredging flood lowering plain River Table water

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Does river bed dredging, to bring down the water table, have any effect on lowering the flood plain levels?

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No, dredging itself doesn’t. Flood plain level calculations change over time depending on the number of floods occurred and data collected. The data of the new floods will be added to the existing data to determine new levels. Slight change is to be expected but not significant change.