flood plain

How To Use flood plain In A Sentence

• This is Marshgate Lane, a 100% non-residential slice of East London, one solitary road cutting across the flood plain of the River Lea.
• A river adjusts to variations in seasonal changes in volumetric flow by means of its thalweg (the thread of fastest flowing water), its flood plains, and its underground flow.
• Flood plain land is to be avoided. Times, Sunday Times
• Flood plain land is to be avoided. Times, Sunday Times
• The flood plains of the Brahmaputra are a refuge for tigers, leopards, sloth bears, elephants and 75% of the world's population of great Indian one-horned rhinos.
• The objectors say the problem is that Iburndale Beck runs alongside the land and the area is a low-lying flood plain.
• The report also recommended a strong presumption against building on flood plains. Times, Sunday Times
• Meanwhile, critics charge that the real causes of the floods are government efforts to funnel rivers through narrow channels and overbuilding on flood plains.
• The already over-stretched funds can not deal with serious infrastructure solutions to facilitate the development of flood plains.
• Given that she was a pains to emphasis that flood plain development is to continue, regardless of the untold misery it's exacting on our fellow countrymen and women, I can't think of a more callous comment or more apt death warrant for Ms Cooper's Ministerial career. Bitter Funny and True