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Southern Indiana's topography is more varied than that in the north and generally contains more hills and geographic variation than the northern portion, such as the "Knobs", a series of 1,000 ft (300 m) hills that run parallel to the Ohio River in south-central Indiana. The largely flat and flood-prone bottomlands of Indiana, where the Wabash ...
A flood insurance rate map (FIRM) is an official map of a community within the United States that displays the floodplains, more explicitly special hazard areas and risk premium zones, as delineated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). [1]
The dam was among those authorized by the 1958 Flood Control Act. The dam was designed and built by the Louisville district of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. [3] The earthen dam was constructed from 1962 [4] to 1967, with a height of 140 feet (43 m), and 8,000 feet (2,400 m) long at its crest. [5]
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Indiana. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
Paraná River floodplain, at its confluence with the headstream of the Paranaíba (on the right) and the Verde River, near Panorama, Brazil A floodplain after a one-in-10-year flood on the Isle of Wight Gravel floodplain of a glacial river near the Snow Mountains in Alaska, 1902 The Laramie River meanders across its floodplain in Albany County, Wyoming, 1949 This aggradational floodplain of a ...
Due to the heavy rainfall, the National Weather Service in Indianapolis issued a Flood Warning at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday that will be in effect until noon.. NWS Indianapolis shared warnings about ...
The Elkhart River is a 48.3-mile-long (77.7 km) [1] tributary of the St. Joseph River in northern Indiana in the United States. [2] It is almost entirely contained in Elkhart County. It begins as the South Branch Elkhart River from Port Mitchell Lake and the North Branch Elkhart River from Waldron Lake and merge to form the Elkhart River west ...
The 5 phases of the Bloomington downtown flood control project Construction crews work on the final phase of the Clear Creek culvert reconstruction, happening from Dunn Street to Indiana Avenue ...