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The weather service's Wilmington office forecasts minor flooding from the Ohio River. The warning is in effect from Sunday morning to 2 a.m. on Tuesday. According to weather service data, the ...
The watch was issued at about 4:30 a.m. Monday. Home & Garden. Medicare
A line of thunderstorms moved through the southeastern U.S. this weekend with heavy rain and life-threatening flash flooding across the Ohio Valley and Appalachians and severe weather across the ...
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Floodplain restoration is the process of fully or partially restoring a river's floodplain to its original conditions before having been affected by the construction of levees (dikes) and the draining of wetlands and marshes.
A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands [1] is an area of land adjacent to a river. Floodplains stretch from the banks of a river channel to the base of the enclosing valley, and experience flooding during periods of high discharge. [2] The soils usually consist of clays, silts, sands, and gravels deposited during floods. [3]
The peak flood level occurs as a very steep, short spike; a quick spurt of water. Anything that slows the surface runoff (marshes, meanders, vegetation, porous materials, turbulent flow, the river spreading over a floodplain) will slow some of the flow more than other parts, spreading the flow over time and blunting the spike. Even slightly ...
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