inundation
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The paper, "Fecal Bacteria Contamination of Floodwaters and a Coastal Waterway from Tidally-Driven Stormwater Network Inundation," is published in the open-access journal GeoHealth.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2024
On the Jersey Shore, the DEP is contemplating a new Inundation Risk Zone that would be preserved for parks, trails and boardwalks.
From Scientific American • Aug. 22, 2022
State emergency officials credit the North Carolina Flood Inundation Mapping and Alert Network with providing predictions about which buildings will experience flooding based on weather forecasts on history.
From Washington Times • Oct. 10, 2016
"Inundation of low-lying areas, extreme heat stress, droughts and storms are all magnified by the extra methane emissions," they authors write.
From The Guardian • Jul. 24, 2013
Inundation is also a method of impeding the approach of an enemy, by damming up the course of a brook or river, so as to intercept the water, and set the neighbourhood afloat.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
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