Sentence examples for local flood from inspiring English sources

"Lead Local Flood Authorities are at the heart of flood risk management.

The Environment Agency is urging people to check for updates online as its teams maintain local flood defences.

FEMA is also phasing out the subsidized rates granted to policyholders with homes built before local flood maps were first drawn.

A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police said: "Earlier this morning local flood defences were breached and the water level in Moorland began rising.

The Agency said more than 200 properties had been protected by local flood defence schemes, including St Ives, Truro, Bodmin and Tavistock.

"We are not going to have widespread flooding problems; we are going to have local flood problems and underpasses that become flooded".

Failure to examine traced participants was due to single participants living in very remote localities, aircraft cancellations due to weather conditions, local flooding and participant absence from a community at the time of scheduled research visits.

(AP) — The federal government and a county in South Texas have reached a final agreement to build a combination of levees and a border fence, a project intended to address national security concerns and local flood-control needs.

Rainfall rates such as these may overwhelm the capacity of storm drains, resulting in local flooding.

Rainwater running off hard impervious surfaces or waterlogged soil may cause local flooding.

"Since rivers are already high, local flooding is likely," he said.