How To Use Flood plain In A Sentence
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This is Marshgate Lane, a 100% non-residential slice of East London, one solitary road cutting across the flood plain of the River Lea.
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A mystery remains, however, over the way features resembling flood plains, river beds and gorges were created on Mars.
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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.
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It has always amazed me how moronic the planning authorities are when they sanction building on natural flood plains.
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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.
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I am in possession of the Environment Agency's map indicating the extent of the flood plain in this area.
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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.
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If you build flood banks at the edge of the river, that tends to cut the river off from its flood plain.
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The bypass will also cut across the flood plain of the river, effectively forming a dam to natural drainage.
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Stilt houses are unique to the Tonga people, and hill homesteads are found in the Zambezi River flood plains.
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When the flood plains dry up cattle graze on the succulent marsh grass which grew while the plains were filled with water.
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Akataama is Lozi and his village lies in the Zambezi valley in western Zambia, in an area known as the Barotse Flood Plain.
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The land is sinking, due to isostacy and the compaction of sediments, much faster than the sea is rising, because rivers are now embanked and not allowed to deposit new sediment on the flood plains.
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The flood plain tax would replace the existing system under which householders across the country pay a precept on their Council Tax bills - regardless of whether they live in flood risk areas.
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Erpetoichthys calabaricus is distributed solely in tropical Africa, where it occupies habitats ranging from flowing rivers to flood plains and internal river deltas.
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The unforested Mountain Valleys ecoregion contains terraces, flood plains, alluvial fans, and hills.
Ecoregions of Utah (EPA)
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The objectors say the problem is that Iburndale Beck runs alongside the land and the area is a low-lying flood plain.
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The site is in a flood plain, which meant slurry walls had to be built to enclose the area where the foundation walls now stand.
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It's a predominantly flat landscape veined by creeks and rivers that meander haphazardly across vast flood plains.
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This area is a flood plain but the blocked drainage channels are taking a long time to clear.
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The footprints are from 175 million years ago - about ten million years more recently than Ike's fossil, by which time the Jurassic seas over Yorkshire had given way to a low-lying flood plain.
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Southern California's done its best to compound the damage by turning historic wildfire corridors into housing tracts, wetlands into marinas, flood plains into slurbs and deserts into parking lots.
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A single-lane carriageway will be carried over the River Nadder and its flood plain on a viaduct.
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Water is stored the way nature stores it in regenerated wetlands, recharged aquifers, and along recovered flood plains that are also refuges for wildlife.
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In the New World, it generally occurs in wet habitats that have been recently disturbed, such as rice or other agricultural fields, river flood plains, drainage ditches, roadside ditches and swales, and wetland mitigation ponds.
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The Government has blamed local authority planners for permitting development on high-risk flood plains and riverbank sites.
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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.
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When the flood plains dry up cattle graze on the succulent marsh grass which grew while the plains were filled with water.
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In addition, there are two intra-zonal/azonal types: flood plain (riparian) forest along the rivers and wetlands.
Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe
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As the river rises or recedes, water continually moves into or drains from the pools in the flood plains, flowing in channels or tributaries which connect to the banks of the river.
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The height of the diversionary structure will allow water exceeding a two-year flood stage to flow onto an adjacent flood plain.
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Nearby, the engineers are also building a timber trestle bridge to allow year round access for Klaipeda's rural residents to cross a flood plain.
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A.D.Fursaev studied the melliferous flora of the Volga flood plain.
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I could see across the flood plain towards rivers of blue glacial ice cascading down from the flanks of distant mountains.
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This is Marshgate Lane, a 100% non-residential slice of East London, one solitary road cutting across the flood plain of the River Lea.
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Lastly the Holocene (10,000 years to present) deposits that occur under Belfast were mainly deposited on the flood plain of the River Lagan.
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It often occurs that a stream, after having built a flood plain, ceases to aggrade its bed because of a lessened load or for other reasons, such as an uplift of the region, and begins instead to degrade it.
The Elements of Geology
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The already over-stretched funds can not deal with serious infrastructure solutions to facilitate the development of flood plains.
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The gravel pit was dug in the river's flood plain.
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The adjacent flood plain was left high and dry, depriving the inhabitants of the catfish and other marshland staples of their diet.
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It sped along a deep green flood plain, over rocky rivers, through anonymous towns and raced Japanese cars on trackside roads.
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In the distance, a circle of small wattled huts raised on stilts lay shimmering ahead of them on the hot flood plain.
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The gorge slowly widens northward to reveal river benches, flood plains, and broadening bottomland, most of which are now artificially flooded.
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You can build on flood plains if you take the right measures.
Times, Sunday Times
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The property stretches for about 60 km from north to south through a tremendous mix of flood plain country and mallee.
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But some opposition councillors have expressed concern the land may be part of the flood plain of the River Brain, which runs along the rear of Spring Lodge.
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Much of the land being reforested is marginal farmland lying within the flood plain.
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Far below the existing fortified circuit of walls, there is another line of mud brick walls and watchtowers that separate the city from the wide flood plain of the Poshtrud River.
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The area had been a flood plain, so the soil is naturally fertile.
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Locally the sluices and waterways from the flood plain to the river are in several cases clogged up.
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‘I have got information from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister that states quite clearly that houses should not be built on flood plains and washland,’ she said.
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Building homes on the Vale of York flood plain had contributed to the devastation caused by the floods, she said, and she called for a moratorium on construction until the possible consequences were known.
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It can be found in a variety of open, sunny, wetland habitats including a pitcher plant bog, a wet calcareous outcrop and the edges of hardwood flood plain forests.
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At not much over 1300 ft, Dumyat nevertheless offers extensive views over the great carse of Stirling - a flat flood plain extending to the River Forth.
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Wherever rain is unusually torrential or persistent, it will not be long before river catchments fail to contain surface run-off and start to expand across their flood plains and beyond.
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Given that she was a pains to emphasis that flood plain development is to continue, regardless of the untold misery it's exacting on our fellow countrymen and women, I can't think of a more callous comment or more apt death warrant for Ms Cooper's Ministerial career.
Bitter Funny and True
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The already over-stretched funds can not deal with serious infrastructure solutions to facilitate the development of flood plains.
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Meanwhile, critics charge that the real causes of the floods are government efforts to funnel rivers through narrow channels and overbuilding on flood plains.
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The report also recommended a strong presumption against building on flood plains.
Times, Sunday Times
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The objectors say the problem is that Iburndale Beck runs alongside the land and the area is a low-lying flood plain.
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The flood plains of the Brahmaputra are a refuge for tigers, leopards, sloth bears, elephants and 75% of the world's population of great Indian one-horned rhinos.
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Flood plain land is to be avoided.
Times, Sunday Times
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A river adjusts to variations in seasonal changes in volumetric flow by means of its thalweg (the thread of fastest flowing water), its flood plains, and its underground flow.
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Flood plain land is to be avoided.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is flood plains in flower, trimming heaven, carex, calamus, windlestraw on the common.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Tigers' home, known simply as the Wy Yung footy ground, is on a picturesque flood plain between the Mitchell River and Clifton Creek, which flows into the river a little downstream.
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The only thing that now stands in the way of the development is an assessment by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency of the risks of constructing this large public building on the flood plain of a river.
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The park will extend to the northern bank of the Haonib River, inclusive of the associated flood plains, as well as unsettled state land connecting the Hobatere concession area.
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The flood plain and swamp faces mudstone provided a good cap rock condition for reservoir forming.
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To the north is the main wine-growing region, the flood plain of the Wairau River.
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Now, however, the floodwater is syphoned off of the motorways onto the nearest land - which is too often the flood plains which are already being over-developed and over saturated.
What Are We Defending ?
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Has he seen the extent of the flood plain in a one in a 100-year flood in this area, as mapped by the Environment Agency?
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By following the contour lines on an Ordnance Survey map it is clear that the vast majority of the land area is above the flood plain.
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One of the conditions of the sale was that this area should remain a flood plain, or washland as it is sometimes called.
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The flints were probably left by hunter-gatherers of the human species Homo antecessor who eked out a living on the flood plains and marshes that bordered an ancient course of the river Thames that has long since dried up.
First humans arrived in Britain 250,000 years earlier than thought
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I'm in northern New Mexico trying to follow her through the bosque, a scrubby forest along the Rio Grande flood plain.
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Bearing in mind that much of the Vale of York is on a flood plain, the area is susceptible to high levels of flooding.
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You can build on flood plains if you take the right measures.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most central region culturally and economically is the lowland flood plain of the Mekong River and Tonle Sap Lake.
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It is a large fresh water lake associated with marshes on the flood plains of the river.
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Flood plain land is to be avoided.
Times, Sunday Times
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In addition, if virgin land is to be broken, or if steep land is to be afforested, or if flood plains are to be afforested, permission from the Department of Agriculture is required.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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According to the RSPB, the River Earn is cut off from its natural flood plain by earth embankments protecting agricultural land.
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State regulators have begun removing hog farms located in flood plains.
