floodplain

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Seems to me that the best use of this floodplain is as a floodplain --- we should be removing houses and industry from areas that flood regularly.

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  1. noun A plain bordering a river and subject to flooding.

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  • A former professor of mine once said that building a house in a floodplain is like setting up a tent ...
  • A former professor of mine once said that building a house in a floodplain is like setting up a tent on the interstate just because no cars are coming by right at that moment.
  • You chose to build there and the houses are not even above the 100 year floodplain which is the code.
  • "The floodplain is the top of the bank, so all of those walls are subject to going underwater and having extreme velocities," Clark said.
  • King County has since been changing its development policies to greatly restrict development in the floodplain, and to buy out and remove some homes and mobile-home parks to move residents out of harm's way. —  All Today's News - Sightline Daily
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