Floodplain: Any normally dry land area that is susceptible to being inundated by water from any natural source. This area is usually low land adjacent to a stream or lake.
Floodplain: The flat or nearly flat land along a river or stream or in a tidal area that is covered by water during a flood.
Floor Sweep: Capture of heavier-than-air gases that collect at floor level.
floodplain
The land bordering a stream, built up of sediments from overflow of the stream and subject to inundation when the stream is at flood stage. See also first bottom.
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floodplain The flat or nearly flat land on the floor of a stream valley or tidal area that is covered by water during floods.
floodplain management The combination of efforts both political and physical to reduce long-term flood damages.
floodplain
land next to a river that becomes covered by water when the river overflows its banks .
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floodplain : Mostly level land along rivers and streams that may be submerged by floodwater. A 100-year floodplain is an area which can be expected to flood once in every 100 years.
Floodplain: The flat land adjacient to a river, formed by deposition of fluvial materials.
Flowing Artesian Well: A well where the water level is above the ground surface.
Floodplain:nearly flat land adjacent to a river that is naturally subject to periodic flooding. Focus:the underground starting place of an earthquake (also called the hypocenter).
Some meadows, such as those along a river floodplain, may only be flooded intermittently. Grasses, rushes, and sedges are dominant plants; soils range from black and mucky to being fairly well decomposed.
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In some floodplains, the area behind the berm is an area of turbulent water where a series of small ridges and swales (depressions) form.
Preserve wetlands and floodplains that protect coastlines from flooding and damage
Protect barrier beaches and reduce erosion
Improve drainage systems
Elevate existing structures or build protective barriers in certain places ...
(3) The building of a floodplain by sediment deposition; the filling of a depression or drainageway with sediment; the building of a fan by deposition of an alluvial mantle.
 See also: Water, Soil, Organic, Condition, Organism
  
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