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- noun Plural form of
floodplain .
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Examples
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How about the Army Corps of Engineers, with their patented program of working with developers to get people to put expensive houses in floodplains and near hurricane threatened shores, plowing over saltmarshes and the like?
Goose, Meet Gander 2007
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Washington farmers living in floodplains, but not people threatened by mudslides.
The Liquid Earth 1999
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Washington farmers living in floodplains, but not people threatened by mudslides.
The Liquid Earth 1999
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Alongside stream channels are relatively flat areas known as floodplains (Figure 6).
Fluvial landforms 2008
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Wetlands, such as floodplains, lakes, and reservoirs, are the main providers of flood attenuation potential in inland water systems.
Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Wetlands and Water~ Summary for Decision-makers 2008
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Wetlands such as floodplains, lakes, and reservoirs help to attenuate floods.
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In other cases, such as floodplains overlying sandy soils (in West Africa and India, for example), recharge of the aquifer occurs during flooding.
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Situated at the confluence of several rivers, the floodplains contain fertile and productive soils.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Situated at the confluence of several rivers, the floodplains contain fertile and productive soils.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Still, those leaders (and most in the Kharndam regions, save Impralnors and military leaders) consider the floodplains of the River Saroth and the Dograan Cliffs to be the southernmost reaches of the Twelvelands.
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