The reduction of flood effects may be attained by lowering the risk of flood. This often requires complex works not only on the assessment of conveyance of the open channel on the territory exposed of flood but also of the capacity of the upper part of the river channel. Great cost for decrease of flood damages can be avoided by improving the conveyance of the channel. This can be proceeded by assessment of the existing state of the open channel development. In result of assessment of damages caused by overflow from the the Czarna Woda channel it was established, that a water-muddy wave reached the center of the locality Łącko flowing over the whole width of the urbanized adjacent part of the valley. The aim of the studies was to point out the causes of flood threat to the locality Łącko. The state of development and conveyance of the Stream Czarna Woda, flowing across the upper districts and the center of Łącko was assessed. The Stream Czarna Woda flows in a trained open channel constructed by a stoneconcrete channel. The performed evaluation of conveyance capacity of cannel permits to identify sections of low conveyance of the stream. The performed measurements ...
