Sentences with phrase «in the flood zone of»

At the time, Agriculture Minister Lana Popham said in a Facebook post that the approval was the most difficult decision of her career and she was «grieving the loss of agricultural land in the flood zone of Site C.»

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Many people point to the National Flood Insurance Program, which was created to boost financial resilience in flood zones, but has been criticized from just about every political and technical vantage point as too often working to subsidize, instead of mitigate, vulnerability.

Two weeks after Hurricane Harvey caused devastating flooding in Houston, Congress passed an initial $ 15 billion relief bill — a pot of money the Federal Emergency Management Agency can use to help any disaster zones.

Naperville Park District officials have said that the $ 2.5 million sports complex is a necessity in one of the fastest - growing zones in the city and that they are willing to work with residents to alleviate concerns about lighting, noise, flooding, traffic congestion and safety.

Martin Scott, of the Community Development Department, told the zoning board last week that the proposed ordinance, similar to one in force in Orland Park, would require pools be drained into the street to avoid flooding neighbors» yards.

We discussed the role of online video in «flooding the zone» to push unflattering content down in search results online earlier, but video and other online pushback doesn't spread itself — in fact, a campaign's supporters can be its best defense online.

• The office of Sen. Robert Ortt, a North Tonawanda Republican, said the senator helped secure $ 40 million for Lake Ontario flood relief, as well as $ 1 million for a statewide mental health resource program based in public schools and $ 1.6 million for the Niagara Falls Economic Development Tourism Target Zone.

Molinaro also said he's been hard at work creating maps for people who are interested in Governor Andrew Cuomo's recently announced buyout program for homeowners in flood zones, and said he is crafting a needs statement for help for the island's two hospitals in the wake of Sandy.

The city said the report was unfair, noting that about 700 of those properties were in flood zones, were unsuitable for residential development or were slated to be developed.

The city said Stringer's report was unfair, arguing that about 700 of the properties were either in flood zones, were unsuitable for residential development or were already scheduled to be developed within the next two years.

About 310 of the properties in question are in flood zones, or came with similar complications, an HPD spokesperson told the Times.

He met with state and local advisers, had essential equipment moved into place and ordered the evacuation of residents living in flood or storm surge zones.

Agency officials have also noted that some of the sites aren't ideal for housing since they are located in flood zones.

The researcher team agreed that including extreme sea levels into coastal impact studies is imperative in helping vulnerable parts of the world effectively protect themselves by adapting through new or upgraded infrastructure such as dikes, pumping systems, barriers, or other tools like new building codes or flood zoning that prevents new infrastructure from being built in high - risk areas.

Simply measuring the amount of rainfall could track either the strength of El Niño or the Intertropical Convergence Zone, a global atmospheric feature related to the trade winds that moves north and south each year, bringing heavy rains and seasonal flooding in its path.

ONLINE Gold Award: Al Shaw, Neena Satija and Kiah Collier ProPublica and The Texas Tribune «Boomtown, Flood Town» Dec. 7, 2016 In a comprehensive, richly interactive story, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reported that more frequent and fiercer rainstorms are likely in cities like Houston due to climate change, even as unmanaged growth and lack of zoning have made the city more vulnerable to risk of floodinIn a comprehensive, richly interactive story, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reported that more frequent and fiercer rainstorms are likely in cities like Houston due to climate change, even as unmanaged growth and lack of zoning have made the city more vulnerable to risk of floodinin cities like Houston due to climate change, even as unmanaged growth and lack of zoning have made the city more vulnerable to risk of flooding.

«Today, not only are more people in harm's way than there were 50 years ago, but building in flood plains, earthquake zones and other high - risk areas has increased the likelihood that a routine natural hazard will become a major catastrophe,» warns a 2015 report from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), which maintains an international disaster database.

Yet regardless of how much sea - level rise climate change brings, the researchers say careful long - term strategic planning can ensure that development in high - risk flood zones is appropriately designed or avoided.

«Accurate assessment of the risk of floods in any particular area is important for town planning and council zoning and in designing flood protection infrastructure like bridges and levees,» says Dr Westra.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency estimates that about 13 million people live in a «1 - in -100-year» floodplain zone, a region that has a 1 percent chance of flooding in any given year.

Girard said she often has to take time out of her schedule to literally sit down with, say, a building developer to educate that person on the perils of trying to construct a new project in a flood zone.

The increase in frequency of these events that are today considered exceptional will likely push existing coastal protection structures beyond their design limits, leaving a large part of Europe's coastal zones exposed to flooding, according to the study's authors.

The researchers compiled urban development, flood hazard and census data and overlaid it on a map of the U.S.. Although their analysis shows that Americans in general have become more aware of the risk of floods over the 10 - year study period, the researchers identified several U.S. hot spots where urban development has grown in coastal flood zones including New York City and Miami.

The three counties in the U.S. that have the largest concentration of people living in a flood zone are located on the Gulf of Mexico.

Cameron parish in Louisiana has 93.6 percent of its 6,401 population living in the flood zone, Monroe county in Florida has 91.4 percent of its 66,804 population and Galveston county in Texas has 82.8 percent of its 241,204 population living in a flood zone.

«The results show that people in coastal areas are more aware of flood threats than those living in inland flood zones, and that populations in inland areas are increasing.

Co-author Dr Friederike Otto, a senior researcher in Oxford's Environmental Change Institute and scientific coordinator of climateprediction.net, said: «For the first time ever, this study doesn't stop at rainfall and river flow but attributes the change in risk from the meteorology down to the direct impact of flooded houses in the river catchment zones.»

Slap said Harvey was only the latest natural disaster to expose flaws in the national flood insurance programme allowing property owners in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's so - called Zone X — areas at risk of a once - in -500-years flood event — not to carry coverage or fully disclose their flood risk when they sell.

The preliminary results of this study have been on our website since the time the flooding happened, but now we have looked not only at the rainfall, but also the influence of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions on the atmospheric circulation and how this propagates from rainfall, to river flow down to the direct impact of flooded houses in the river catchment zones.

Here, Garland takes that influence and reapplies the lack of comprehendible logic as to how these settings have come to exist, from an unusually flooded shack, right up to a lighthouse which acts as a portal to a greater metaphysical state of being (not unlike «the room», an area in Stalker's Zone, which grants the wishes of anybody who steps in).

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The lot can not be in a 100 - year flood hazard zone and must be of a size that can not be subdivided according to local zoning laws.

It's possible for part of the property to be in a flood zone while the home itself is on higher ground, above the base flood elevation.

The claim did not cost the insurance company a significant amount, and your home is not necessarily predisposed to risk of future hail storms, as it may be to floods if you lived in a flood zone.

The Base Flood Elevation, or BFE shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for high - risk flood zones indicates the water surface elevation resulting from a flood that has a one percent chance of equaling or exceeding that level in any given year.

If you live in a designated flood zone, your policy will be more expensive than if you live on top of a hill.

In 1968, Congress created the NFIP to help homeowners in special flood hazard zones protect themselves from the high cost of flood damagIn 1968, Congress created the NFIP to help homeowners in special flood hazard zones protect themselves from the high cost of flood damagin special flood hazard zones protect themselves from the high cost of flood damage.

If you're a homeowner in Florida, flood insurance may be a requirement of your mortgage loan if your house is located in a moderate or high risk flood zone.

In that case, renters insurance in a flood zone isn't covering the flood, it's covering the result of a power outage regardless of the cause because there are specific provisions written into the policy for that purposIn that case, renters insurance in a flood zone isn't covering the flood, it's covering the result of a power outage regardless of the cause because there are specific provisions written into the policy for that purposin a flood zone isn't covering the flood, it's covering the result of a power outage regardless of the cause because there are specific provisions written into the policy for that purpose.

Renters insurance in a flood zone doesn't cover floods because it was long ago decided that flood insurance should be a separate type of coverage.

Generally speaking, you won't find apartments being built in the level of flood zone that would make it difficult to get renters insurance.

Even without discussing renters insurance flood coverage, it's worth noting that 95 % of the population of America won't even be asked if they're in a flood zone when they go to buy renters insurance.

Various flood zones are mapped in each panel and each falls into one of three categorical areas below:

Flood insurance is very cheap, costing just a couple of hundred dollars per year, if you do not live in a federally designated flood zone.

In fact, FEMA estimates that one third of all homes damaged by flooding are not even in a flood zone or near a body of wateIn fact, FEMA estimates that one third of all homes damaged by flooding are not even in a flood zone or near a body of watein a flood zone or near a body of water.

Texas doesn't require homeowners to purchase flood insurance, but if your property is in a high - risk flood zone, you may need to buy coverage as a condition of closing on your mortgage.

Obtain a flood certification with proof of necessary flood insurance if the home is in a flood zone, with at least the next 12 months» premium paid

So if your home is in a certain classification of flood zone and you don't carry the insurance, it will be very difficult for anyone to get a mortgage on the property.

neighbourhoods, or in certain parts of Manitoba, will find it impossible to get flood insurance, as they live in designated flood zones.)

You «could» be in a landslide zone, flood zone, Earthquake zone, within 50 miles of an airport, their could have been a Uranium mine nearby... the list goes on.