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unusual facts about flood plain



Dinosaur Cove

During the Early Cretaceous the location was a flood plain within a great rift valley that formed as Australia started to separate northward from Antarctica.

Harringworth

It lies on the southern bank of the River Welland; the area is dominated by a railway viaduct, the Welland Viaduct (known locally as "the Harringworth Viaduct") that crosses the Welland and its flood plain immediately to the west of the village.

Riverland Biosphere Reserve

The flood plains of the reserve are recognised as internationally significant wetlands for migratory birds under the Ramsar Convention.

Tillamook County, Oregon

Development along U.S. Route 101 to the north of Tillamook during the last part of the 20th century has blocked part of the flood plain of the Wilson River, contributing to repeated winter flooding in the city.


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Abcott

It lies on the west side of the River Clun and its flood plain, just opposite from the village of Clungunford, which is the parish the hamlet is part of.

Beighton railway station

All three stations were in the flood plain of the River Rother, which repeatedly led to problems.

Bernice, Oklahoma

Construction of Pensacola Dam and Grand Lake o' the Cherokees put the original town in a flood plain, so the residents moved to high ground outside the proposed lake.

Claryville, Missouri

Claryville is situated in the Mississippi River Valley within an alluvial flood plain called the Bois Brule Bottom.

Forty Hall

The hall and formal park are located on the top of Forty Hill, a level gravel plateau standing above the flood plain of the River Lea to the east, and the valley of the Turkey Brook to the north and west.

Frank Pallone

Pallone has questioned the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on its update of flood plain maps in Monmouth County, specifically in the Bayshore area.

Lake Bolon

It is located on the broad west-bank flood plain of the Amur River about 80 km south of Komsomolsk and drains into the Amur by a 9 km channel.

Pusweli Oya

Starting from the hills in Puswelihena in Horana Division of Kalutara District, it flows northwards through a low lying flat land (6–10 meters above sea level) converted into rice fields, which ultimately becomes the stream's flood plain during rainy seasons.

River Nidd

Lower down on the flood plain, the nature of the underlying ground is Magnesian limestone over alluvium and terrace drift deposits.

South Beach, Staten Island

Two hospitals, one an acute-care facility (the North Campus of Staten Island University Hospital), the other a state-run hospital for the mentally ill (the South Beach Psychiatric Center) stand at the southern edge of the neighborhood (sometimes reckoned as the separate locality of Ocean Breeze), which often suffers from severe flooding after heavy rains, due to its location along a coastal flood plain.

SpVgg Landshut

The club originally played in the Flutmulde, a flood plain near the Isar river.

Winnall, Hampshire

It is the location of the Winnall Moors nature reserve on the flood-plain of the Itchen and the University of Southampton's Erasmus Park hall of residence.