Sentence examples for the largest flood from inspiring English sources

The caves may become large enough to carry even the largest flood flows, and the surface channels will remain dry all year.

The largest flood event recorded affected local groundwater flow orientation by generating an inversion of the hydraulic gradient for 16 h.

Regardless, the researchers say, the flow rate during the height of the largest flood would have been enough to move house-sized boulders and to carry 1-meter-wide stoneasilyeasily asmallerer streams transport sand and silt.

Although the expectations as regards diffuse and point-source pollution are optimistic, results show that detention of the largest flood in this river could only be accomplished with one very large dam or a number of decentralized large dams.

These assessments lead us to consider that the proposal by Howard et al. (2012) of the largest flood on Earth is highly unrealistic, especially when due consideration is given to a possible source area and a trigger mechanism.

Our study is carried out and verified using the largest flood event by typhoon 'Talas' of 2011 over the two catchments, which are Futatsuno (356.1 km2) and Nanairo (182.1 km2) dam catchments of Shingu river basin (2360 km2), which is located in the Kii peninsula, Japan.

"These were some of the largest floods ever to occur on earth, they are relatively unknown and they left dramatic features on the landscape that are hard to understand if you don't know what happened".

Second, the spillway intake should be wide enough so that the largest floods can pass without increasing the water level in the reservoir enough to cause a nuisance to upstream property owners.

Mamirauá, about the size of Connecticut, is the largest flooded forest reserve in the world and a place I'd never heard of until John Robinson, the head of International Conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society in the Bronx, told me it had some of the best wildlife viewing in the Amazon.

The Bonneville Flood was one of the largest floods on Earth.

The rising water finally overtopped the rubble and then quickly washed it away, causing a torrent that could have been among the largest floods of the Holocene epoch, Granger says.