A low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding.
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Examples for "floodplain"
Examples for "floodplain"
1We illustrate these challenges with data from the Elbe River floodplain, Germany.
2Here on the boggy floodplain of the Fleet it was really something.
3Such losses suggest something is awry, floodplain managers and researchers said.
4She saw several people on the flat floodplain across The River.
5Dull and gray above the floodplain along the east shore of the river.
1Sometimes there is a narrow flood plain between the water and the wall.
2It is a well defined flood plain from an engineering standpoint.
3Hookina's flood plain is littered with gum trees torn up by raging waters.
4But I had to get somewhere away from the flood plain.
5The flood plain of the Rhine from Strasbourg to Mainz is flat and very wide.
6We were never in the flood plain before, never really flooded … and then, bingo.
7Areas that already lie within an existing coastal flood plain would face even greater risk.
8The plant is in a flood plain and had never removed its chemicals ahead of storms.
9They watched the flood plain for some time.
10But thirty miles above its mouth this canyon ends, and a narrow valley with a flood plain
11Swamp and flood plain, cypress and cedar.
12Carol Donovan, anther local said to add to the risks, the Tegel site was on a flood plain.
13If you spend a lot of money on flood control, people build further out on the flood plain.
14It is a flood plain and therefore we need to keep as much of the green area as possible.
15In the coming months there is an urgent need to support livestock, flood plain recession and dry season agriculture.
16A map of a wide flood plain, such as that of the Mississippi or the Missouri (Fig.
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