"We would argue with the floodplain definition accepted by PAC … that it erred in accepting definition without strong grounds.
The Rhine's maximum flow without causing disaster will be raised from 15,000 cubic metres a second to 16,000 and, eventually, 18,000.The Noordwaard polder south-east of Rotterdam was floodplain until 1973, when the delta works made it suitable for cattle and vegetables.
Deltares, a research institute, recommends that the Thai government emulate Room for the River by moving dykes farther back where possible, limiting floodplain development and unifying water management so that safety is no longer subservient to irrigation and electricity generation.But the Dutch approach has limits.
Slaves cleared the brackish, heavily forested floodplain and turned it into arable land.
Besides, the dumb people who live here should never have built their homes on a floodplain".
As Steve Stofka, a transport blogger, explains, this proposal would require the most expensive type of tunnel imaginable—"It is freaking expensive to bore a ten-mile-long tunnel through an alluvial floodplain under a highly urbanised area and to maintain it, since it will reside below the water table," Mr Stofka writes.
The Barking site is on a floodplain, so huge amounts of land must be moved to raise the houses up higher.
It is now being turned back into floodplain to absorb floodwaters that might otherwise inundate cities upstream.
With much of downtown Calgary built on a downstream floodplain, inundations were almost inevitable.Cleaning up will be costly for the cash-strapped Alberta government, which has set aside an initial C$1 billion ($950m) in aid, and for Canada more generally.
"If you go trolling for flatfish, you might pull out a dead friend".One of the most terrible reports concerns the Ookawa Elementary School on Matsushima Bay, a school built in the wrong place on a narrow floodplain.
Broad floodplain meadows flank the rivers.
