Sentences with word «floodway»

Experts say the city should have been able to craft an ordinance to stop people from building in floodways.

Likewise, after the Great Flood of 1927, Cairo built a floodwall, strengthened levees, and created the Birds Point - New Madrid floodway.

Since its construction in 1968, the Red River floodway has saved Manitoba more than $ 32 billion in flood damage.

Our first move removed about a fifth of the water flowing through that area, but we hadn't gone far enough — we still had to open up the next floodway, the Bonnet Carré, just upstream of New Orleans.

Structures in and near floodways can make overall flooding worse.

The buyer filed suit against the seller's representative for failure to disclose the existence of the lawsuit, that the property was located in a FEMA floodway area, that the property was originally built as a mobile trailer rather than a wood frame structure, and that the property was subject to zoning restrictions.

«In the meantime,» he said, «inaccurate Federal Emergency Management Agency flood frequencies based on the assumption that today's river will behave as it has in the past greatly underestimate our real flood risk and lead to inappropriate development in floodways and floodplains.»

The Birds Point - New Madrid floodway is a microcosm of the paradoxes and contradictions of U.S. flood - control strategy.

The Red River floodway, for example, can divert the path of the Red River around the urban area of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

The Yantabulla Swamp is a mosaic of channels, floodways and wetlands within the Cuttaburra Creek system, that consistently supports large numbers and a high diversity of waterbirds and when flooding provides breeding sites for ducks and colonial waterbirds.

The world's longest system of levees and floodways, meant to rein in the mighty Mississippi River, may actually make flooding worse.

Previous studies had reported more than $ 50 million in levee repair costs as well as damage solely from the rapid flow of water across the floodway after the detonations, which scoured farmland and left behind thick deposits of unwanted sand.

For the first time in the 83 - year history of the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project, we had three out of four floodways open.

If I didn't open that floodway and relieve the pressure, levees would have broken somewhere else — but the angst level was very high.

I gave the order and we blew up the floodway on May 2.

Olson and his colleagues are studying the levees, diversions, and floodways, which for the past 200 years have allowed land conversion from wetlands to agriculture.

A three - mile - long levee had been built next to the river; a landfill partly in the river's floodway (as defined in 1995) had expanded; parts of the floodplain had been built up with construction fill; and development along three small tributaries of the Meramec had destroyed riparian borders, so that they became torrents after a rain but no longer flowed continuously.

«The biggest jump in the flood stage was next to the landfill in the floodway and to the new levee, which restricted the effective width of the floodway and» 100 - year» floodplain by as much as 65 percent.»

The term «floodway» is sometimes used for a road built at ground level on a flood plain.

The floodway carries this outflow around the city before rejoining the mainstem of the Red River in a less - populated area of the flood plain.

Floodways are usually constructed on flood plains with low traffic and rare floods.

Visitors can also enjoy a relaxing spa treatment in the special treatment room which offers amazing views, and there are many activity options - including helicopter tours of the delta and floodways, and game drives.

Politically, little has changes since then — floodway residents, farmers, and Missouri politicians have fought the Corps during each large flood, and successfully blocked several attempts to open the floodway.

People living and working on floodway land designed and designated as an overflow channel of the river — and for which, U.S. taxpayers paid flow easements — these people fight against using the floodway for its intended purpose.

During the last decade floodplain residents and Missouri politicians lobbied for internal levees within the floodway — flood protection WITHIN a designated floodway,

The entire flood plain, including the floodway, does its job of storing and carrying away floodwater a lot better when there's nothing in the way.

But the house — and every other structure along the floodway that was surrounded by water — raised the overall flood height and disrupted the flow of floodwaters, said Lulloff, chief scientist for the flood plain managers association.

The Meritage proposal would not just be in the flood plain but also along a more critical and vulnerable area: a floodway, loosely defined as the center of the wider flood plain.

In 2006, the City Council took a big, broad step, prohibiting all new buildings in the floodway.

Even building along the edges of a floodway contributes to problems.

It sits in the middle of a floodway.

(ii) a tank containing hazardous materials, chemicals, condensate, wastes, flowback or produced water within the floodway.

Alberta has already announced one step in the right direction: those who choose to rebuild in a floodway will not qualify for future flood - related disaster assistance.