[A high flow event at Glen Canyon Dam in November 2013. Photo by the Bureau of Reclamation via Flickr & CC 2.0 License.] Proposed Headine: How an Invasive Species (Almost) Stopped a Flood Proposed Dek: “High flow events” or controlled floods are a key tool for managing the Colorado River. But what happens when an …
About half a billion people live on fan-shaped floodplains that form where rivers meet the sea. Those plains, called river deltas, share the same fan-like shape the world over. Even after controlling for factors like the size of the river, the slope of the land its channel traverses, and the makeup of the local soil, …