There are sycamores, elms, maples, poplars on a fertile flood plain along the river.
Present flood plain maps (prepared in 2005) are totally redundant and out of order now.
Fears have been raised by residents over plans to earmark greenbelt flood plain for 3, 500 homes.
It could do, but I don't think so because the developments are all above the flood plain.
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Because we all know everyone who lost their home in Hurricane Katrina and Rita lived in a flood plain.
Historically, such settlements have clung to the higher ground on the flood plain.
"The May 2010 storm event should have been an endurable, natural event at or below the 100-year flood plain, " the lawsuit said.
In 2007 the area was severely affected when 40 properties flooded despite the nearby River Severn being low and the flood plain dry.
The works are designed to protect the Erch flood plain against tidal flooding for 10 years while a permanent solution to the problem is investigated.
Rep. ROSS: FEMA's excuse that they give, which is not a good one, is that they won't locate a manufactured home to a flood plain.
The agency will locate mobile homes in flood plains now, she says, if they're placed on a fixed foundation that complies with federal flood plain regulations.
The council received 16 letters objecting to the development - mainly about road access to the site and developing on a flood plain - and 128 letters in support.
Fargo has purchased about 550 houses in low-lying areas since the 1970s to take them out of the flood plain or make room for levees, said Mayor Dennis Walaker.
In reality, the huge economic losses attributed to flooding in recent years are mainly a reflection of economic growth, increased investment in infrastructure and rapidly growing flood plain populations.
Beneath it, stretching all the way to the feet of Ubirr, lies a huge and perfectly flat, lettuce-green flood plain, through which the lazy curves of the East Alligator River meander.
Many areas are simply impossible to protect, such as the Brahmaputra valley in Assam, where one of the mightiest rivers in the world keeps changing its course on its flat flood plain.
"It would either make them think twice about building on flood plain land or it would make them change the design basis upon which they're built, " he told BBC Radio 4's Money Box.
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The lawsuit refers to the so-called 100-year flood plain, which maps the area that could be affected by the type of flooding that statistically can be expected to happen once in a century.
Alan Edgar and Stef Diella are fighting no less than five quangos, in their bid to prevent a non-elected body from overturning a council decision to save the Cuckmere Estuary from being allowed to revert to a flood plain.
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What do you make of householders turned austere pilgrims who live in tatty canvas tents on a flood plain of a river braving regular baths in freezing water, biting cold, smoky skies and ear-splitting din for more than a month?
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In all, 1.1m tonnes of earth and rock were excavated in the construction of the 2010 course, flattening out the harsh gradients of the back nine, and using the aggregate to raise the opening holes above the level of the Usk's flood plain.
They spawn at the end of the dry season, so that the coming floods can carry the fry to the flood-plain.
Moreover, much of the flood-plain is actually forest, which provides a particularly nutritious array of rotting leaves for the fish to feed on.
Dams for irrigation, meanwhile, have a doubly damaging impact on fisheries: they not only hold back water, but also encourage the conversion of forest to farmland in the flood-plain.
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