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Well if your question is "what happens when a river overflows its banks" Then my answer is simple, it floods. A river overflows when extra or excessive water is added e.g. prolonged percipitation(rainfall). Or another case would be pressure added in a section of the river causing the eureka theory and the water level will rise causing an overflow. This simply leads to a flooding of the surrounding area ,depending on the volume of water and the terrain surrounding determines the spread of flooding.

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