Sentences with phrase «year flood plain»

But Mr. Hoffman said the project was 1.5 feet above the 100 - year flood plain.

They're outside of the 100 - year flood plain, so I think that the fact that they flooded will generally be viewed by buyers as a once in a lifetime event (hopefully, it was).

According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, residents in the «100 year flood plain» must purchase a policy if they have a loan from a federally regulated institution.

We calculated the population in the flood plain based on the distribution of coastal population per 1 m elevation increment (Table 2) assuming that all land below the computed surge heights belongs to the 100 - year flood plain.

Asia had the highest number of people living in the flood plain: 30 % (137 million) of Asia's LECZ population resided in the 100 - year flood plain in the baseline year 2000, which made 73 % of the total global flood plain population.

Our results show that about one third (30 %; 189 million) of the global LECZ population was living in the 100 - year flood plain in the year 2000 (see Table 5 and Table 8; S3 Table).

For instance, we estimated 189 million people to have been living in the 100 - year flood plain in the year 2000, globally, while Jongman et al. [73] estimated 271 million people exposed to 1 - in -100-year coastal flood events in 2010.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, more than a quarter (19 %; 6 million) of the people living in the LECZ were located within the 100 - year flood plain in the year 2000.

We use spatially explicit methods and publicly available global data sets to assess (i) the land area and population distribution in the LECZ and (ii) people living in the 100 - year flood plain for three points in time: For a baseline year (2000) and for the years 2030 and 2060.

In Europe, 56 % of the LECZ population (28 million people) lived within the 100 - year flood plain in the year 2000.

Not building in the 100 year flood plain is standard hydrological policy.

The developers plan to elevate the homes out of the 500 - year flood plain, not just the 100 - year.

The moral of the story is 100 - year flood plain elevations aren't worth the paper they're written on.

The designated 100 - year flood plain elevation has been raised 3 times since the dam was built in 1930, the last time less than 10 years ago.

I believe statistical determinations such as 100 - year flood plain elevations are driven more by politics than climatology.

The Mountain Juniper can not tolerate having their roots submerged for very long so periodic floods keep them at an elevation near the edge of the 100 - year flood plain.

2) The home you purchase can not be located within a 100 - year flood plain.

The soon - to - expire standard was set at one foot above the 100 - year flood plain, land that is predicted to flood during a once - every -100-years (13 - 14 inches of rain in 24 hours).

An analysis of flood claims in several southeast Houston suburbs from 1999 - 2009 found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 100 - year flood plain maps — the tool that U.S. officials use to determine both flood risk and insurance premiums — failed to capture 75 percent of flood damages from five serious floods, none of which reached the threshold of a 100 - year event.

That's because we become better at building and engineering but continue to do stupid things like inappropriate building on 100 year flood plains.

Flood plain areas are shown as 10 - year, 30 - year, 50 - year, and 100 - year flood plains.

Not exact matches

For years, developers in the Southwest have sold newcomers land in the flood plains.

Babylonia was rich in its alluvial soil, the age - long deposit of the Euphrates and the Tigris, those two great rivers that year after year unceasingly carried their load of silt to a resting - place, first in the Persian Gulf, then in the swamps that were slowly forming, and at length in the plain which gradually emerged from the waters, though at inundation each year it once again was claimed by the floods that had made it.

«In 25 years, we all found out and learned the hard way that those wetlands and flood plains are more valuable than the developable land.»

We're still going to be at it for the next 10 years, dealing with the flood plains, and this cost GE $ 1.7 billion, creating 500 new jobs.

«When the floods hit Fort Plain last year, Senator Tkaczyk was here immediately, helping with our clean - up and recovery efforts.

Now the probe will take a closer view, hopefully finding clues to the violent volcanic eruptions that apparently flooded the basin with lava, creating the smooth inner plains less than 2 billion years ago.

After the dam was built, it took eight years to build the channels for irrigation — because the flood plain was too wet for bulldozers.

«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.

The dig site — the Prince Creek Formation — is a unit of rock that was deposited on an arctic, coastal flood plain about 69 million years ago.

Lava flows three billion or four billion years ago, for instance, flooded lunar plains and filled craters there, whereas large impacts excavated vast amounts of lunar material that fell to the surface, burying or obscuring nearby craters.

That is, if you can make enough money in the years when you are not flooded to compensate for the inevitable flood, then build in the flood plain.

New construction will have to sit two feet above the 500 - year flood - plain, which is land predicted to flood during a once - every -500-years storm (17 - 19 inches of rain in 24 hours).

«On the vast flood plains of the Indian subcontinent, floods which formerly occurred once every ten years now come every year.

Talk of 100 - year or 500 - year floods is meaningless, as are some of the flood plain maps, Criss said.

«Twenty years ago residents of Hersham had a fight on their hands to stop 600 homes being built on the site, which is Green Belt and a flood plain.

Late Holocene environmental reconstructions and their implications on flood events, typhoon, and agricultural activities in NE Taiwan We reconstructed paleoenvironmental changes from a sediment archive of a lake in the floodplain of the Ilan Plain of NE Taiwan on multi-decadal resolution for the last ca. 1900 years.

Since I bought some waterfront 13 years ago there have been 3 «100 year floods» if we go by the original 691 ′ flood plain.

There are now roughly 26,000 more homes in the Houston - area flood plain than 20 years ago.

The flood plain may flood every five years or every ten or every twenty.

I was amazed at the Government and Green responses to the serious flooding in the English Midlands a couple of years ago, when increassed rainfall due to alleged Man - made Global Warming was trumpeted as a cause for the flooding; anyone who pointed out that generations of covering flood plains with buildings, concrete and ashphalt was quite a dangerous thing to do was derided as a simpleton or an ignoramus.

Also: Explain what percentage chance there is of flooding each year in both types of flood plain.

Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains, bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes on and on.

On the issue raised by Duster of the flood plains in Russia, It may be that the authors of the paper were suggesting that it was specifically the spring snow melt that caused the floods, rather than steady all year round rainfall.

Terraces, hugelkultur, floodbreak (aka windbreak) plantings, diversion channels, maintaining wild wetlands as sinks, building creekbed pathways, using orchards as buffers, impregnating poorer - quality soils with hydrophobic biochar, progressively alternating such features with dykes laid out to fractionally draw overflows and slow flow, proper programs of dredging and berming, and on and on, there is no reason a flood plain could not be made so robust by industrious (as opposed to industrial), intelligent, conscientious (as opposed to council consultant) planning as to be impervious to a 1,000 year flood, and oh by the way, make the land more profitably productive and lucratively livable, and more resistant to drought, wildfire, invasive species and extinction of native species too.

Although these numbers do compare well, we must note that there is a difference of ten years between the baseline years and the projections and that Jongman et al. [73] did not account for upward displacement of the flood plain from sea - level rise.

Flood plain maps show every locale in Massachusetts and list flood plain areas for 10 - year, 30 - year, 50 - year, and 100 - year periods based on the land and slope elevation, as well as your proximity to sources of water.

Unlike living in an earthquake zone, wherein «quakes occur sporadically, in a non-cyclical fashion, flood plain inhabitants experience spring runoffs every single year... same time, same place, same station.