Presentation # 2 & #3 India and Piermont

Presentation #2

• Monsoon floods killed 59 in the past 3 days and 2,364 since June
• Authorities are using motorboats and military helicopters
• house collapse has killed 14 people
• 6 feet of deep water
• 4.7 in. fell in 5 hrs.
• Piermont's location is a penninsula in the Hudson River
• it is south of the tappan zee bridge
• piermont is on the west bank of the hudson river
• some ideas for peventing water damage are : water drainage, dam/ levees, water paths, more storm drains, lifting houses.
• some of these ideas may never work but water drainage and more storm drains are the most possible of them all
  

Presentation #3

Or reasearch project is to:

1. Define a problem
2. find a solution
3. find a place in another part of the world with that problem
4. look and compare their solutionns to our solutions

We have found out:

1. Flooding in Piermont
2. UNKOWN
3. India (maybe chicago but we do not have much information
4. UNKNOWN

Some other information is:

• The Brahmaputra River floods Northeast India
• 170 villages were in waist deep water
• "Kaziranga National Park, home to tigers, elephants, panthers, bears, and the world’s largest population of one-horned rhinoceroses, was also more than 50 percent flooded, said BBC."
• Rain flooded the Mahanadi River in Orissa India
• "Not only is the Mahanadi clearly swollen in this image, but its northern neighbor, the Brahmani is also flooded. "
• The Brahmani river has flooded almost 1,850 villages and is said to be the worst flood in 50 years.
• The floods killed 29 people and affected mor than 4 million