Usage of "flood plain"

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A low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding.

Uso de flood plain em inglês

Sometimes there is a narrow flood plain between the water and the wall. 
 Canyons of the Colorado 

It is a well defined flood plain from an engineering standpoint. 
 Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan... 

Hookina's flood plain is littered with gum trees torn up by raging waters. 
 Reuters 

But I had to get somewhere away from the flood plain. 
 The Guardian 

The flood plain of the Rhine from Strasbourg to Mainz is flat and very wide. 
 The Irish Times 

We were never in the flood plain before, never really flooded … and then, bingo. 
 The Guardian 

Areas that already lie within an existing coastal flood plain would face even greater risk. 
 Reuters 

The plant is in a flood plain and had never removed its chemicals ahead of storms. 
 Reuters 

They watched the flood plain for some time. 
 The skein of lament 

But thirty miles above its mouth this canyon ends, and a narrow valley with a flood plain 
 Canyons of the Colorado 

Swamp and flood plain, cypress and cedar. 
 Jarka Ruus 

Carol Donovan, anther local said to add to the risks, the Tegel site was on a flood plain. 
 Radio NZ 

If you spend a lot of money on flood control, people build further out on the flood plain. 
 The new yorker 

It is a flood plain and therefore we need to keep as much of the green area as possible. 
 BBC 

In the coming months there is an urgent need to support livestock, flood plain recession and dry season agriculture. 
 The Guardian 

A map of a wide flood plain, such as that of the Mississippi or the Missouri (Fig. 
 The Elements of Geology 

Translations for flood plain

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Significados de flood plain em inglês