Urban flood prevention scheme. Constructed in a newly built estate, this flood prevention and relief scheme is designed to reduce the damage caused du

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Urban flood prevention scheme. Constructed in a newly built estate, this flood prevention and relief scheme is designed to reduce the damage caused during flooding on a range of scales, up to and including large floods that happen on average once every 100 years. Photographed in November 2010, in Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales.

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