Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
natural flood channel — A channel beginning at some point on banks of stream and ending at some other point lower down stream, through which flood waters naturally flow at times of high water. C. M. Bott Furniture Co. v. City of Buffalo, 131 Misc. 624, 227 N.Y.S. 660,… … Black's law dictionary
natural flood channel — A channel beginning at some point on banks of stream and ending at some other point lower down stream, through which flood waters naturally flow at times of high water. C. M. Bott Furniture Co. v. City of Buffalo, 131 Misc. 624, 227 N.Y.S. 660,… … Black's law dictionary
Flood control channel — Flood control channels are a series of large, concrete, and empty (except when a flood is actually present) open air channels that extend a ways below the street levels of some larger cities, so that if and when a flood occurs, the flood will run … Wikipedia
Flood warning — is closely linked to the task of flood forecasting. The distinction between the two is that the outcome of flood forecasting is a set of forecast time profiles of channel flows or river levels at various locations, while flood warning is the task … Wikipedia
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Flood forecasting — is the use of real time precipitation and streamflow data in rainfall runoff and streamflow routing models to forecast flow rates and water levels for periods ranging from a few hours to days ahead, depending on the size of the watershed or river … Wikipedia
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Flood — A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land, a deluge.MSN Encarta Dictionary. [http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861612277 Flood.] Retrieved on 2006 12 28.] In the sense of… … Wikipedia
Flood control in the Netherlands — Without dikes, this part of the Netherlands would be flooded … Wikipedia
