Sentences with phrase «cause urban flooding»
Urbanization creates large areas of impervious surfaces (such as roads, pavement, parking lots, and buildings) that increased immediate runoff, and heavy downpours can exceed the capacity of storm drains and cause urban flooding.
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While he's awaiting final word on Cuomo's attendance, Ortiz was pragmatic when I asked if he agrees with his colleagues that the governor is lagging in the urban agenda department, noting that the administration had been sidetracked by the need to respond to unexpected events — like the back - to - back tropical storms that caused unprecedented flooding upstate and the rejection of the first PEF contract.
Snow melt and rain will cause many rivers and streams to rise, potentially breaking ice layers causing ice jams and localized flooding with water covered roads, especially in low lying areas and urban and poor drainage areas.
Accra is seeking assistance from London to solve its poor urban planning challenges which have been identified as the cause of the capital's perennial flood and become a headache for governments.
A shorter period covered by snow, more spring rain and faster snow melt can combine to release large amounts of runoff that have the potential to stress urban hydrologic systems and cause flooding in urban areas.»
Flooding also causes major human and economic consequences by inundating urban and agricultural land and by disrupting navigation in the region's roads, rivers, and reservoirs (see Ch.
As warming climate causes sea level rise, coastal urban areas such as New York City face more frequent and intense episodic flooding following storms and inundation of some low - lying areas (2011-04-26) + Read Science Brief
Urban flooding can be caused by short - duration very heavy precipitation.
Tragically, the house has been damaged a number of times by severe floods from the nearby Fox River (since, although Mies designed the house with sufficient clearance for floods, urban and industrial development upriver in ensuing years caused the river to flood more extensively than Mies had anticipated — click here for some horrifying pictures of some recent flooding).