The High Plains are generally flat grassland, drained eastward by the Platte, Arkansas, and Canadian rivers.
It is flat and drains poorly, and the grout that holds the outer stone is beginning to loosen.
In the case of a flat roof draining into the same system as the plumbing fixtures in a building, a failure would be more serious and the maximum rainfall rate expected once in 30 or 100 years might be used.
He cooks flat anchovies, drained from a 2-ounce tin, in one-half cup of olive oil with two cloves of garlic, sliced, for 10 minutes over very low heat.
Salt marsh, area of low, flat, poorly drained ground that is subject to daily or occasional flooding by salt water or brackish water and that is covered with a thick mat of grasses and such grasslike plants as sedges and rushes.
Set in the flat and drained landscape of the Norfolk broads, the film competed with far more glamorous pictures, such as Werner Herzog's biopic of the British explorer and Arab expert Gertrude Bell, starring Nicole Kidman, and Everything Will Be Fine, Wim Wenders's 3D portrait of guilt and forgiveness starring James Franco and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
There's a simple explanation: When you lie flat, "mucus drains and pools down at the base of the throat," says Dr. Arleen Rockoff, an internist and infectious disease specialist at Kaiser Permanente-Woodland Hills.
Residents should also clear gutters, slope drains or drainage benches, and ensure that flat roofs are draining properly, he said.
Most change in drainage density has occurred in headwater portions of the basin where numerous drainage ditches have been added to the network to drain flat uplands.
