Final Hazards Report
Malta has recently been having many droughts and is becoming a very frequent hazard. Malta has experienced a number of flash floods in recent years, during which time intense rainfall has caused surface runoff to flow within urban areas. Flooding problems as a result of uncontrolled street surface runoff occur in the urbanized areas of various basins of the Maltese Islands. The flash flooding usually occurs in the lower parts of these catchments, as a result of heavy storms which cause a reactivation of the valley channel leading to uncontrolled street surface runoff passing through the low lying urbanized areas. Flooding from coastal waters usually results in the formation of puddles of seawater along some of the roads that are located directly at the water’s edge. Seawater flooding is rather uncommon in Malta but can sometimes occur where there is a combination of high tide and heavy rainfall or as a result of atmospheric gravity waves. The consequences resulting from