After a study on the compound effects of the flood attributes of the Dongting lake water system, it is concluded as follows : The first, flood should be defined with the flood prevention feature water levels of all the rivers and lakes of the same water system in the flood season, that is, flood prevention water level, alert water level, and security water level, which reflect both the grade of flood and the law of how flood changes with the change of place and time. The second,when flood has come into a certain scale, huge efficient energies ...