(Alternatively, the forest-owner would pay the flood-plain property owner not to sue for damages from floods.) ❋ Unknown (2009)
Twenty-sided stars, falling on the flood-plain like slices of sky. ❋ Yuki_onna (2010)
When I put my nose to the hole I smell the flood-plain of the canal after a hurricane and the spots of green grass where thousands of Irish have lain with a stink and a stink and a stinky-stick. ❋ Tim Jones-Yelvington (2009)
The imaginary river that fecundates the flood-plain in the brain-pan belongs to the simulacral Troy, parvam Troiam, that Andromache builds in the Aeneid, in captivity, after her city was destroyed. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Of Three Gorges Dam BEIJING -- China is expected to sign an agreement for a feasibility study on how to manage flood-plain risks downstream from the Three Gorges Dam, the latest move to address development pitfalls with the world's biggest hydropower project. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Found in the southern portion of the extensive flood-plain and delta system of the Karun, Dez, and other major rivers that rise in the northwest Zagros Mountains. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"We have two kinds of levees -- those that have failed and those that will," said Paul Osman, head of the flood-plain management program for the state of Illinois. ❋ Joe Barrett (2008)
Even in the Pacific Northwest, low-elevation and flood-plain older forests are extremely rare. ❋ Unknown (2008)
That remains controversial: last week the Biloxi City Council rejected the recommendation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to expand the city's flood-plain map, and to increase the elevation for homes from 13 feet above likely flood levels up to 18 to 25 feet. ❋ Unknown (2007)
They're actually going in there with earth movers and rehabilitating portions of the river valley back to a semblance of the natural flood-plain state, and each spring they'll be simulating floods with dam releases. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2007)
The herbivorous animal is found where there is an abundance of successional flood-plain vegetation, which is a preferred food source of Baird's tapir. ❋ Scott Schmidt (2006)
However, Sidorova made a contemporary presentation in 2001 at the International Conference on the Future of Dendrochronology entitled Climatic response of larch trees growing at the upper timber line and above flood-plain terrace of lower stream Indigirka River, which almost certainly covers the same ground as the Russian article. ❋ Unknown (2006)
We saw it from the far side of the Tigris, a river twice as fast and half again as deep as the Euphrate — a solid city rising from the flood-plain, thick-walled and massive. ❋ Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- (2003)
In a good many cases, this particular cure for the community's ills has proved to be worse than the sickness, leading to total community dependence on a fallible and perhaps capricious enterprise, pollution of air and water, noise and flood-plain clutter, and frequently the destruction of the local riverside where industries tend to locate unless directed elsewhere. ❋ United States. Dept. Of The Interior. (N/A)
Furthermore, such dependence would lead rapidly to a point of diminishing returns, like the flood-plain development and protection cycle examined in the preceding chapter. ❋ United States. Dept. Of The Interior. (N/A)
Suppose a local planning or zoning board is taking action to determine whether or not a big corporation from elsewhere can buy and subdivide some flood-plain land belonging to a well-liked fellow townsman, a hardware dealer whom all of them have known from childhood and with whom they will be doing business the rest of their lives. ❋ United States. Dept. Of The Interior. (N/A)
The level of the Nile is so far below the surface on both sides of its own flood-plain that its waters cannot be used for the reclamation of any part of the Libyan Desert, and the same is practically true of the Niger, which barely more than touches the borders of the Sahara. ❋ Jewett Castello Gilson (N/A)
A [flood] plain is used to flood to prevent [flooding] if [a town] ❋ Swagapotomus (2013)
