Flooding Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Swamp or bogs
  2. 3. Soil carried by water
  3. 4. An river course that is opened up away from the normal river course to allow the flood water to escape without flooding other more valuable land
  4. 6. Another word for snow or rain
  5. 9. When people pay into a fund to spread the costs of disasters over many people
  6. 11. A big rounded bank built up near the edge of the river to stop it overflowing
Down
  1. 2. when part of a hill slides off the underlying rock into the water way or land below
  2. 5. gates which are opened (in the case of Moutoa) or shut to control flood waters
  3. 6. A word which means that something has a tendency to be affected or act in a particular way (can also mean lying flat)
  4. 7. Impact which affects people's income
  5. 8. Cloudy or discoloured
  6. 10. Waste matter, based around human excrement, that passes through sewers or effluent systems