NOUN
- a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding
How To Use flood plain In A Sentence
- This is Marshgate Lane, a 100% non-residential slice of East London, one solitary road cutting across the flood plain of the River Lea.
- A mystery remains, however, over the way features resembling flood plains, river beds and gorges were created on Mars.
- Most flood-control projects involve widening, deepening and straightening channels so they can hold a larger volume of water before they can inundate adjacent flood plains.
- It has always amazed me how moronic the planning authorities are when they sanction building on natural flood plains.
- The dam would flood the Macal River valley - a so-called ‘Biogem’ of rain forest and fertile flood plain that is home to many endangered species like the howler monkey, jaguar, and tapir.
- I am in possession of the Environment Agency's map indicating the extent of the flood plain in this area.
- This was carved out of the clay millions of years ago by the passage of the river, leaving wide flood plains bordered by low, wooded foothills.
- If you build flood banks at the edge of the river, that tends to cut the river off from its flood plain.
- The bypass will also cut across the flood plain of the river, effectively forming a dam to natural drainage.
- Stilt houses are unique to the Tonga people, and hill homesteads are found in the Zambezi River flood plains.
