Across
- 1. Swamp or bogs
- 3. Soil carried by water
- 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
- 6. Another word for snow or rain
- 9. When people pay into a fund to spread the costs of disasters over many people
- 11. A big rounded bank built up near the edge of the river to stop it overflowing
Down
- 2. when part of a hill slides off the underlying rock into the water way or land below
- 5. gates which are opened (in the case of Moutoa) or shut to control flood waters
- 6. A word which means that something has a tendency to be affected or act in a particular way (can also mean lying flat)
- 7. Impact which affects people's income
- 8. Cloudy or discoloured
- 10. Waste matter, based around human excrement, that passes through sewers or effluent systems