Which flooding outcome results from decreased alluvial plain permeability?

💡 Explanation

Decreased alluvial plain permeability raises the water table locally, thus increasing surface runoff coefficients because infiltration is inhibited by saturated ground. Therefore surface runoff increases, rather than subsurface flow, under these saturated conditions.

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