Sentence examples for the level of flooding from inspiring English sources

The governor said the level of flooding might have been a record.

The agency recently denied Townsend, Vt., the funds to build larger culverts to manage the level of flooding it recorded last year.

Jeff Zogg, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service office in Davenport, Iowa, said the level of flooding is expected to break records by a wide margin.

The covering priority for each segment can be determined by the river length, the drainage area, or the level of flooding risk.

The level of flooding in a given neighborhood has been the chief factor in how fast its businesses have returned, said Richard Campanella, a geographer at Tulane University and historian of the city.

In Washington, for instance, the level of flooding a typical hazard assessment might suggest would occur only once every 20 years was predicted to occur once every 16 years instead under the researchers' new model.

The leader of Calderdale council, Tim Swift, said: "It's obvious that the scale of flooding events over the last 10 years has been dramatically greater than anything we've had before, and without getting into an argument, even if you put the most generous interpretation on what the government is doing, the level of flood resilience funding hasn't increased to match that.

"It is looking to perhaps not eliminate all flood risks but to try and reduce to a reasonable level the level of flood risk that might affect the town centre".

Our data suggests that the prevalence of mental health symptoms rose with the level of flood water in the home.

Reported damage to property, disruption to services, health concerns relating to the flood, and perceived negative impact on finances increased in proportion to the level of flood water affecting the home (Table 1).

Adaptation is implemented within the IAP by a series of sliders which allow the user to modify the socio-economic scenario variables (for example, increasing the level of flood defence).