Sentences with phrase «as nuisance flooding»
NOAA's National Weather Service has set flooding thresholds depending on such variables; any daily water level rise above the threshold is regarded as nuisance flooding.
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Even minor coastal flooding, defined as nuisance flooding by NOAA, affects communities and their infrastructure.
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It is thus also known as «nuisance flooding».
This research uses the NOAA nuisance flood thresholds (each threshold is locally defined but described as a coastal flood level that closes coastal roads, overwhelms storm drains, and compromises infrastructure).
With further sea level rise, nuisance flooding could reach a tipping point, defined by NOAA scientists as the point when there are 30 days of such floods a year.
It's also notable that tidal nuisance flooding occurs now at so - called King Tides, and is being used as a visualization tool for the future.
We define nuisance flooding as occurring when the water level at a NOAA tidal gauge exceeds the local threshold for minor flooding impacts that has been established by the local Weather Forecasting Offices (WFO) of the National Weather Service (NWS).
For the recent report, we tallied the number of days between May 2014 - April 2015 (so as not to spilt the winter season) that the water level at 27 locations exceeded the local nuisance flood level.
«Sea - level rise was to be referred to as «nuisance flooding,»» Trotta added.
The impacts of a higher sea level can go from permanently flooded areas (below future sea level) to an increase of seasonal and «nuisance» floods, as well as worse (higher) storm surges.
«Sea - level rise was to be referred to as «nuisance flooding.
Recent cases have involved issues such as: adverse possession of farming land; nuisance due to flooding and contamination; a multi-party action for breach of contract as to farming subsidies, entitlements and negligence; and proprietary estoppel and a disputed trust of land action.
The effects of global warming will be local, and nuisance claims in particular will increase as we see more floods, fires and subsidence.
Was a flood that sat vacant for 5 years, the county was suing the bank as a nuisance so they dumped it.