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In terms of flood damage claims, FEMA's policy is to cut four feet above the floodline, which is a preventive step, but that needs to happen almost immediately.
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The outlook is bleak, at least from the floodline here, and to be perfectly frank, the patient has to want to get better to be healed.
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The council decided to move those who lived in the section below the floodline to safer, adjacent land so infrastructure could be safely established in the area.
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"But when it was surveyed to start planning for water, electricity and road provision, it was found that part of it was below the floodline," he said.
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"This led to people demanding that if any of them had to move, then the whole community should move, failing which the infrastructure would have to be developed in the existing area, below the floodline or not."
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The village is on a dolomite area and has more than 350 families living on the floodline.
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"Tomorrow morning the community will be shown presentations, maps and given talks which will explain what a floodline is and how building below it can threaten not only the quality of services but also their lives," said Baloyi.
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The septic tank for the ablution facilities was adjacent to the water within the high floodline and posed a pollution threat to the dam, according to the statement.
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Port Elizabeth assistant city engineer Dimitri Paizies said it was illegal for people to occupy land on a river's floodline and pleaded for the community's co-operation with the council.
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Temporary relief centres were the most likely short-term solution, Shenker said, but it appeared many victims had started rebuilding their devastated homes below the floodline.
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