In fact, some lenders and mortgage companies require insurance in Shaded X Zones (areas between limits of the 100 - year flood and 500 - year flood, more commonly referred to as the 500
year floodplain or the 0.2 % annual chance flood area), as well.
Flooding: If a dwelling unit is located in a 100 -
year floodplain, the landlord shall provide notice in the dwelling unit rental agreement that the dwelling unit is located within the floodplain.
Floods are not limited to the 100 -
year floodplain and 100 year floods can happen more frequently than once every century.
There has been no effort to deflect development or require safe construction practices within the 500 -
year floodplain, even though the region's flood history suggests that broader flood mitigation efforts would be prudent.
For example, the relatively new incorporated community of Central in East Baton Rouge Parish reports that 75 percent of its territory is in the 100 -
year floodplain.
The sample maps showing Philadelphia and Kansas City outline the 1 in 100 -
year floodplain derived from the model, which simulates flooding in every river basin in the continental U.S. Darker blues indicate deeper water.
In 2010, the value of property within the 100 -
year floodplain was $ 58.7 billion, according to a report by Scott M. Stringer, the city comptroller.
Among the restrictions, fracking won't be allowed in 100 -
year floodplains.
A Dutch - Texan team found that most Houston - area drowning deaths from Hurricane Harvey occurred outside the zones designated by government as being at higher risk of flooding: the 100 - and 500 -
year floodplains.
Not exact matches
In its first such arrangement with a non-government organisation, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder has signed an agreement with Nature Foundation SA Inc. to manage up to 50 GL of Commonwealth environmental water over five
years to support wetland and
floodplain rehabilitation in the lower River Murray.
It is important to capitalise on good storage volumes and environmental water availability in wetter
years in order to build ecological resilience — the ability of river, wetland and
floodplain ecosystems to withstand and recover from the impact of future droughts.
«Fifty gigalitres of water over five
years will help sustain the river and environments that lie between the larger iconic wetlands and
floodplains, contributing to the health of the Murray - Darling river system as a whole,» he said.
In October 2012 the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder entered into a long - term agreement with Nature Foundation SA for the use of up to 10 gigalitres a
year of Commonwealth environmental water over the next five
years to support wetland and
floodplain rehabilitation projects in the lower Murray River.
In
years of relatively low flow, changes in weir pool levels in conjunction with environmental water use can confer ecological benefits between the river and
floodplain, such as nutrient exchange and wetting of fringing vegetation.
«The six
year project will provide a better understanding of how environmental watering improves river, wetland and
floodplain health over time.
SKULKING around an ancient
floodplain 250 million
years ago, the earliest known dinosaur ancestors left footprints just 1 to 2 centimetres long.
Based on analyses of hydrological variations below the 29 -
year Balbina dam and the 26
year old Tucurui dam in the Brazilian Amazon and their knowledge of channel morphology below the proposed Andean dams, the scientists also predicted that much of the
floodplain below these impoundments could become permanently dry.
Our research suggests that the flake is the earliest securely - dated artefact from Turkey ever recorded and was dropped on the
floodplain by an early hominin well over a million
years ago.»
Here, the dinosaur roams across a
floodplain 76 million
years ago.
About 300,000
years ago, herds of rhino - sized creatures migrated across the
floodplains of east - central Australia, mimicking the treks that zebras and antelopes make across Africa's Serengeti today.
«These tracks are evidence that we had sizeable, flying birds living alongside other kinds of dinosaurs on these polar, river
floodplains, about 105 million
years ago,» Martin says.
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.
But American Indians had been building modest mounds in the Mississippi River valley since 3500 B.C.; they'd been growing corn with much the same tools for hundreds of
years, and the rivers and
floodplains had been there for thousands.
Using a digital terrain model of the landscape and a hydrological model simulation the scientists found that planting trees on the
floodplain and increasing the number of logjams, across 10 - 15 per cent of the total river length could reduce the peak height of a potential flood in the town by 6 per cent once the trees had grown for 25
years.
Hakawai melvillei was a small wading bird that lived about 19 million
years ago during the Miocene epoch, around an ancient subtropical lake on the edge of a
floodplain, with many other waterbirds, waterfowl, crocodilians and bats.
From work by Professor Thomas Madsen and Dr Beata Ujvari at Fogg Dam, as well as Dr Greg Brown's regular counts, we know that most of the big
floodplain goannas were killed by trying to eat toads, within a
year or so of the toads first arriving.
What may look barren upon the re-opening of Muir Beach will be a lush
floodplain of sedges, rushes, and rhizomatous grasses by next
year.
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.
«These are animals that have spent hundreds, if not thousands of
years, evolving to line up their spawning [egg - laying] behaviour with the times that
floodplains fill with water.»
Worldwide, from 1980 to 2009, floods caused more than 500,000 deaths and affected more than 2.8 billion people.18 In the United States, floods caused 4,586 deaths from 1959 to 200519 while property and crop damage averaged nearly 8 billion dollars per
year (in 2011 dollars) over 1981 through 2011.17 The risks from future floods are significant, given expanded development in coastal areas and
floodplains, unabated urbanization, land - use changes, and human - induced climate change.18
If you look at the river Elbe basin in the
year 1100, the
floodplain was about 620,000 hectares and now it's about 84,000 hectares.»
Luxury apartments to be used for 10 days by athletes In the next two
years, Delhi's government will irrevocably alter 118 acres of formerly protected public lands on the ecologically - sensitive
floodplains of the Yamuna River, in order to build «prestige projects» and luxury apartments that will house athletes for a mere 10 days, to the tune of Rs. 1.8 to 4.2 crores each (1 crore = 10 million or US $ 387,000 to 903,000).
Over the
years, the Westfield River has flooded on several occasions, and the entire city lies in a
floodplain zone.
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years of professional experience in Hydrologic / Hydraulic modeling and analyses of watersheds, bridges / culverts with scour analyses, stormwater management,
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With 69 per cent of existing
floodplain maps available online from the provincial government being 20 - to 25 -
years - old, outdated
floodplain maps compromise the ability of decision makers to effectively assess and manage flood risks, says BCREA, putting communities in jeopardy.
Flood damage is reduced by nearly $ 1 billion a
year through communities implementing sound
floodplain management requirements and property owners purchasing of flood insurance.