PROBLEMS OF FLOOD DISASTERS IN HADEJIA: A PHYSICAL PLANNING PROPOSAL

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1990-07
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ISA, ALHAJI GARBA
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PROBLEMS OF FLOOD DISASTERS IN HADEJIA: A PHYSICAL PLANNIG PROPOSAL Plood is perhaps the most disastrous of natural phenomenum. This was amply demonstrated through the various h i s t o r i c a l records a v a i l a b l e some of which have been h i g h l i t e d in t h i s r e p o r t. Plood prevention and mitigation r e q u i r e s some of the most widest forms of control measures; landuse, engineering, building and t h e l i k e s combined. Many scholars and researchers have shown keen i n t e r e s t in the area of flood s t u d i e s . The United Nations through i t s d i s a s t e r r e l i e f organisation (UNDRO) based in Geneva Switzerland, has been widely involved in I n t e r n a t i o n a l efforts to cope with severe e f f e c t s of flood menance. Although engineering control measures were t r a d i t i o n a l l y p r e f e r e d , recent trends tend to favour a much more p h y s i c a l planning approach of flood p l a i n management which sought to c o n t r o l the use of the flood p l a i n r a t h e r than the f o r c e s of the floods themselves only. The study area, Hadejia, in Kano S t a t e is located close to Hadejia r i v e r at i t s lower s e c t i o n. Three major flood d i s a s t e r s were documented in the town since t h e 1940's that is in 1942, 1963 and 1988 which were the main reference p o i n t s in t h i s study. Floods in the study area were found to be caused by i n t e n s e l o c a l r a i n f a l l , the meandering of H a d e j i a r i v e r as a r e s u l t of the sandy clay vi
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PROBLEMS, FLOOD, DISASTERS, HADEJIA:, PHYSICAL, PLANNING, PROPOSAL
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