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OCR: Cubic Feet Of Water Per Second Hours 4 12 10000 8 16 20 24 5000 0 How floods behave depends on how fast a river can get rid of its excess water. In the graph above, a flood crest is shown subsiding quickly as a river spills over onto its floodplain.