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The inspiring women, including Audrey Bampoe from Credit Suisse, scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock and actor Jodie Whittaker, arrive at the House of Lords ahead of their conversations with young people to discuss some of the key barriers facing young women and girls and identifying solutions.
Image: Copyright House of Lords 2018 / Photography by Roger Harris. This image is subject to parliamentary copyright.
The River Hull tidal surge barrier is a flood control gate located on the River Hull in the city of Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The barrier impounds the river in times of tidal surges, preventing water moving upstream of the river from the Humber Estuary, and flooding the areas of the city which are near to the river, or susceptible to flooding. It is held horizontal when not in use, and turns 90 degrees before being lowered to the riverbed in the event of a tidal surge. It is the second largest flood barrier in the United Kingdom after the Thames Barrier in London.
Dubbed as "the little city within the city" Mangagoy is Bislig City's center of trade and industry is the largest barangay in terms of land area in the entire country, many promising spots are hidden within it's coastlines secluded by rugged terrains. Too bad we could only stay for a couple days searching and shooting the right light.
As a part of the Malahat Safety Improvements, barriers were recently installed along sections of the Malahat on the Trans Canada Highway. Five sections of new concrete median barrier, totalling 5.4 km, will be added to the Malahat by spring 2013. When complete, over 40 per cent of the Malahat corridor will be separated with median barrier.
The installation of this section of median barrier will cost approximately $250,000. This is part of the government of British Columbia’s $8 million commitment to additional concrete median barrier and other safety improvements on the Malahat.
This temporary barrier was used during re-paving of the road. The Green River Trail follows the road at right southward to Riverview Park and points beyond.
Operational since 1982, the purpose of the Thames Barrier is to prevent the floodplain of all but the easternmost boroughs of Greater London from being flooded by exceptionally high tides and storm surges moving up from the North Sea.
The tide looks very low today.
I cycled the Thames path (on the other side) on my Birdy folding bicycle over 10 years ago. I have the photos somewhere. I must dig them out and put them on Flickr.
The Thames Barrier is a unique flood control structure on the River Thames at Woolwich Reach in East London. It is 520 meters across and protects London against flooding caused by tidal surges from the North Sea.
The Thames Barrier is the world's second-largest movable flood barrier (after the Oosterscheldekering in the Netherlands).
The barrier currently protects 125sq km of London, including an estimated 1.25m people, £80bn worth of property and infrastructure, a large proportion of the London tube network and many historic buildings, power supplies, hospitals and schools. It took eight years to build the structure, costing £535m and became fully operational in 1982.
Its maintanance cost is £6m per year.
How it Works ?
The decision to close the barrier is taken by the Barrier Controller, and the incoming tide is predicted using data from the barrier’s advanced computer analysis and Storm Tide Forecasting Service provided by the Met Office.
The barrier is a series of 10 separate movable gates across the river (as you see in the pic). Closing the barrier seals off part of the upper part of the river from the sea. When not in use, the gates rest out of sight in curved recessed concrete cills in the riverbed, which allows river traffic to pass through. Each of the main gates is constructed as hollow steel-platted structure over 20m high and weighing around 3,700 tonnes, capable of withstanding an overall load of more than 9,000 tonnes. The barrier is able to close in just a few minutes. Figures from the Environment Agency show that over the last 25 years the Thames Barrier has closed 106 times, over half of which have occurred since 2000.
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