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She noted that "Louisiana Highway 1 used to be protected by vast wetlands on either side, but because it became so floodprone, the highway department is now elevating it."
Susan Buchanan: Pre-Spill, Coastal Threats Cannot Be Ignored, Environmentalists Say Susan Buchanan 2011
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In Bangladesh, the percentage of floodprone areas is much higher and inundation of more than half of the country is not uncommon.
Ecosystems and Human Well-being Synthesis~ Appendix A. Ecosystem Service Reports 2008
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Production potential of pigeonpea/pearl millet intercropping system in rainfed diara (floodprone) areas of eastern uttar pradesh, India.
1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia. 1992
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Production potential of pigeonpea/pearl millet intercropping system in rainfed diara (floodprone) areas of eastern uttar pradesh, India. 18.
1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia. 1992
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MILLTOWN - The borough's floodprone electrical substation may soon have a new home.
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In the meantime, development in floodprone areas outside city limits continued, and property-rights advocates pushed back against the city's attempt to curb construction in vulnerable areas.
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Grand Forks and East Grand Forks also kept the river at bay this spring thanks to a massive investment in floodwalls, levees and programs that relocated floodprone neighborhoods.
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The county has purchased three dilapidated, floodprone properties in the small village off U.S. 460 in recent years, with the last acquisition in December, said
The Shad Plank 2009
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The original flood mitigation grant provided funding for the county to purchase five floodprone properties with high claim ratios in Happy Valley.
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The funding was provided so the county could buy the land enabling the property owners to sell and move out of the floodprone area.
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