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Meaning of "flood plains"

Flood plains are flat or low-lying areas of land adjacent to a river or stream that are prone to flooding. They usually serve as natural storage areas for excess water during times of heavy rainfall or river overflow
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Flood plains are thus very productive environments.
Desertification of various flood plains is already recorded.
The flood plains will dry up soon.
Pristerodon were herbivores living on flood plains.
The flood plains sustain a wealth of aquatic life.
And out into open flood plains.
Flood plains are not great places to build homes.
They are also located on flood plains.
The soils in the flood plains are usually fertile.
A second thread focused on building on flood plains.
Iowa has flood plains.
The latter are mainly surrounded by alluvial flood plains.
Houses are built on flood plains leading to.
O stop residential and commercial construction in flood plains.
The bridges over the flood plains were also expanded.

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Old rivers are characterized by flood plains.
Create flood plains and overflow areas for rivers.
Development of the fadama flood plains.
The flood plains are a safe zone after a rainstorm.
This river does not have extensive flood plains.
Houses being built on flood plains are the most obvious example.
The coal beds were deposited on small flood plains.
Wells in the flood plains of the polluted rivers are also endangered.
Even the ones who live on flood plains.
Flood plains may be wide in relation to the size of the river channel.
Grew in swampy land or flood plains.
Flood plains are natural sedimentation areas and reservoirs behave in the same way.
Do not build on flood plains.
Increasing occupation of flood plains augments the number of residents affected with flashfloods.
It also occurs on flood plains.
The flood plains of Chitwan are rich alluvial.
The alluvial soil is generally found on flat flood plains.
It equally advised the people in flood plains to move to higher grounds.
There are several opportunities to explore the potential of the flood plains.
Deforestation and the increasing urbanisation of flood plains have exacerbated the situation.
Negative effects on ecological systems located in lowlands and flood plains.
There are dried riverbeds and flood plains and river deltas and meandering rivers.
Lush plants and trees grew in swamps and flood plains.
Flood plains in Africa are excellent natural wet buffers.
It may cause sedimentation downstream on flood plains and in reservoirs.
Storms directly trigger landslides and debris flows in mountainous areas and floods in flood plains.
This open salty water is surrounded by flood plains and mangrove swamps.
Demand for new housing can lead to inappropriate development on natural flood plains.
In the flood plains Hyparrhenia rufa is the most common species.
Insects include dragonflies over the flood plains of the river.
The Yamuna flood plains provide fertile soil suitable for agriculture.
The central and northern parts of the province are undulating flood plains.
The park is located on the flood plains of the Murti River and Raidak River.
Floods pose a risk only to human activities or uses undertaken in flood plains.
Aims to restore the flood plains in Gorno-Badakhshan.

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Here on the scrub plains big is beautiful
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Examples of using Flood
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