THE EXCEPTIONAL INUNDATIONS OF DECEMBER 1984 IN THE SAF-SAF BASIN AND SKIKDA CITY (NORTH-EASTERN ALGERIA): ORIGINS; SPREAD AND IMPACTS

Nouar BOULGHOBRA

ABSTRACT: This article focuses on the study of the exceptional and generalized floods of December, 1984 which affected the city of Skikda, by approaching the study of physical and geographical ability of the basin that supplying as an impluvium inciting the surface runoff, and the hydropluviometric circumstances which caused the genesis and the spread of the floods, by putting into consideration their spatial extension and immediate impacts on the urban and industrial area of Skikda. The city of Skikda, which is one of the high floodability zones, requires an appropriate plan of management and prevention against the risk of inundation.

Keywords: Algeria, Saf-Saf, Skikda, rainfall, flow, December 1984, flood, damages.

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