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2. How Cities Are Using Nature-Based Solutions to Tackle Floods

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   Surface water flooding is especially dangerous for cities with a high proportion of impervious soil coverage and hard surfaces—such as roads and parking lots—that prevent rainwater from being ...

3. Rain garden - Wikipedia

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   The Water Resources Program has begun to focus on using rain gardens as green infrastructure in urban areas, such as Camden and Newark to help prevent localized flooding, combined sewer overflows, and to improve water quality. The Water Resources Program has also revised and produced a rain garden manual in collaboration with The Native Plant ...

4. Developers could do more to prevent street flooding. Miami ...

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   To combat neighborhood flooding, Miami-Dade County is rolling out new construction rules that require driveways, pool decks and patios to let rainwater pass through to the soil below, instead of ...

5. Flood management - Wikipedia

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   The map to the right shows a flood map for the City of York, including the floodplain for a 1 in 100-year flood (dark blue), the predicted floodplain for a 1 in 1000 year flood (light blue) and low-lying areas in need of flood defence (purple). The most sustainable way of reducing risk is to prevent further development in flood-prone areas and ...

6. Drainage law - Wikipedia

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   Section 400 of the Hydrologic Criteria and Drainage Design Manual from the Clark County Regional Flood Control District, which provides an extensive discussion of drainage law in Nevada. The Iowa Drainage Law Manual, from the Center for Transportation Research and Education at Iowa State University

7. Forerunner is software for NFIMBYs, or no flooding in my backyard

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8. Climate change in Arkansas - Wikipedia

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   The flood risk near the Mississippi River may rise due to increased precipitation and stream flows in the Midwestern watersheds of the Mississippi. Reservoirs and dams managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are used to mitigate flooding, but have been unable to prevent all flooding. [1]

9. Flood emergency hits Arkansas after months of rain falls in a ...

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   A rare flash flood emergency was issued for around 5,000 people in Yellville and surrounding areas of Marion County after 6 to 11 inches of rain fell in just four to five hours, according to the ...