Sentence examples for lower flood from inspiring English sources

Even when the new maps take effect, these homeowners will pay lower flood premiums than they otherwise would.

In besieged cities and towns along the Mississippi River, a tense calm descended Friday as residents greeted federal officials' predictions of lower flood levels with hope and caution.

The analysis of areal extent of the watersheds shows higher mean annual run off, higher mean discharge, lower sediment yield and lower flood discharge per unit area in larger watersheds such as Koneri, Thalugai and Kottarakkannu.

Results indicate that by valuing the environmental service loss and discounting it from the economic benefits of land use, alternative solutions to land use are found, with decreased peak flows and lower flood frequency.

However, urban watersheds with more flow-regulating features had lower flood magnitudes (154 m3/s), but similar flood durations (0.55 days), compared to urban watersheds with fewer flow-regulating features (360 m3/s and 0.23 days).

Large sediment diversions may also lower flood flow lines in the river and reduce dredging volumes sufficiently in the present navigation outlet to make it feasible for Mississippi River ports to service larger, Post-Panamax ships with greater than 15 m draft.

When liquid percolates down a packed bed which is mounted on a support having a significant flow resistance, liquid can accumulate at the bottom of the column to form a part-flooded bed, comprising a lower flooded zone and an upper percolating zone.

The layer with the high surface area, hold-up layer, has a lower flooding point as compared to another, de-entrainment layer.

We conclude that these drought-affected tropical floodplain forests have a lower standing biomass and aboveground productivity than central Amazonian floodplain forests in more humid climates, and the imprint of the flooding gradient on stand dynamics is relatively weak, which may result from the lower flooding height and the interaction of flooding with low nutrient supply and periodic drought.

Eugenia inundata is one of the dominant species, especially in the lower flooding areas, where plants are flooded most of the year (Takeuchi 1962).

Popular measures are dike setback, lowering flood plains, reconnecting side channels and removal of bank defences.