FLOOD RECORDS IN THE URBAN AREA OF SANTA CRUZ DO SUL BETWEEN THE YEARS 1980 AND 2013

The knowledge of periodicity, recurrence, or even increasing severity of causative processes over time damage, are important elements in the diagnosis and implementation of mitigation actions. This paper present an inventory of the floods in the period from 1980 to 2013 in Santa Cruz do Sul, a city located in the central portion Centre-East of the Rio Grande do Sul state. As sources were used inventory held by Reckziegel (2007), the Bank of Registration Disaster Data da Secretaria de Defesa Civil Nacional - SNDC, the Defesa Civl of Rio Grande do Sul state and newspapers. The studies showed thirty-three records of floods being more significant in the summer months. Besides the inventory identified the presence of problems linked to flooding in at least 22 neighborhoods in different parts of the urban area of the municipality.