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Do not kill a river

Edit DNA India 14 Apr 2016
Floodplains. Rivers in India are monsoon rivers which have deep and wide extended floodplain aquifers that run for thousands of kilometres and are an enormous natural storage for water that gets recharged by the river flow and flood especially during the monsoon. Floodplains for the Himalayan rivers are sand banks that are 5 to 20 km wide and a 100 metres deep, and about 40 per cent of this huge volume all along their course is water....

Nature park project to enhance Hillsboro community (Cardno Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
The City of Hillsboro, Oregon, and Metro, the regional government for the Portland metropolitan area, have partnered to develop a nature park that will accommodate recreational uses while preserving and enhancing key natural resource areas for native fish and wildlife habitat, including riparian forest, Oregon white oak savanna, streams, wetlands, and floodplains....

Restoration Project to Begin at River Run Park (City of Lake Oswego, OR)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
(Source. City of Lake Oswego, OR). Lake Oswego Parks and Recreation has been honored to receive a Metro Nature in the Neighborhoods Grant to restore the three natural parks. Byrant Woods, Canal Acres and River Run ... The goal of this project is to implement a native plant restoration project on City-owned land in a cluster along the Tualatin River and within the floodplain ... Signs will be posted at the park entry the day of treatment ... (noodl....

The Minister’s Delegate has approved conservation advices for 60 species (Department of the Environment - Australian Government)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
(Source ... trisulcata, (Cumquat Eremophila) Eucalyptus leprophloia, Scaly Butt Mallee, (Scaly-butt Mallee) Hemiandra gardneri, (Red Snakebush) Lasiorhinus krefftii, (Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat, Yaminon) Liopholis slateri slateri, (Slater's Skink, Floodplain Skink) Myoporum turbinatum, (Salt Myoporum) Myriophyllum lapidicola, (Chiddarcooping myriophyllum) Potorous gilbertii, (Gilbert's Potoroo) Verticordia spicata subsp ... (noodl....

Barrasso Opening Statement at SCIA Legislative Hearing (US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
(Source. US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs). WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (SCIA) Chairman John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered the following remarks at a committee legislative hearing to receive testimony on the following bills.. · S ... · S ... · S. 2564, a bill to modernize prior legislation relating to Dine College;. · S ... · S ... 2421 ... 2717 would improve dam safety regulation and floodplain management on Indian lands.'....

Sociology Assistant Professor Sullivan studies housing equality (University of Colorado Denver)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Apr 2016
Mobile homes have historically been, and continue to be, relegated to commercial and industrial areas as well as floodplains ... She is also collaborating with Andrew Rumbach, PhD, and Carrie Makarewicz, PhD, both assistant professors in Planning and Design in the College of Architecture and Planning, on a project that would examine manufactured housing in flash floodplains....

Month after World Culture Festival, stage on Yamuna bed finally dismantled

Edit Indian Express 13 Apr 2016
Workers remove construction material from the site of the World Cultural Festival along the Yamuna Flood plains on Tuesday. Express photo by Oinam Anand ... Over the past two months, commuters driving down the Delhi-Noida-Direct Flyway (DND) could not miss the stage, which stood tall on the Yamuna floodplains ... The principal committee constituted by the NGT to inspect the floodplains is yet to visit the site and conduct its inspection ... ....

Digital Preliminary Flood Maps for Georgia Coast Ready for Public Viewing (FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Apr 2016
(Source. FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency). ATLANTA, Ga. --Newly revised preliminary digital flood insurance rate maps for the Georgia coastal areas of Camden, Effingham, Glynn, and Long Counties will be available for residents to review at four public open houses the week of April 18-22 ... Over time, flood risks change due to construction and development, environmental changes, floodplains widen or shift, and other factors ... ##....

Study: Houston Homes That Never Flooded Before Now Flood in a Two-Year Storm

Edit Houston Press 13 Apr 2016
A A. Facebook0. Twitter0. More shares recommend reddit email 0. 0. There was a time, not even that long ago, when a Houston neighborhood wasn’t even on Harris County’s 500-year floodplain map. But today, some of those homes are in danger of flooding. In a two-year storm. (That’s right. Two freaking years.). The City of Houston and Mayor Sylvester Turner are about to be sued over it.  ... Upcoming Events ... 22, 6.30pm ...   ... ....

City Council Meeting Minutes, March 9th, 2016 (City of Granger, IA)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Apr 2016
(Source. City of Granger, IA). To download minutes click. Mayor Fuson opened the public hearing on 2016-2017 Granger City Budget at 7.00 p.m. at Granger City Hall, 1906 Main Street, Granger, Iowa. With no oral or written comments, the public hearing was closed at 7.01 p.m ... Roll Call. Present ... All Ayes ... All Ayes ... All Ayes ... Veenstra mentioned they are still waiting to hear back from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources on the floodplain....

What Happens to Historic Landmarks in an Emergency?

Edit The Atlantic 12 Apr 2016
They found that 15 percent of the 3,380 historic sites listed for Kentucky are located in the state’s 100-year or 500-year floodplain, meaning the area has either a 1 percent or 0.2 percent chance, respectively, of being flooded on any given year. Roughly a quarter of the 1,700 sites in Florida are found inside 100-year and 500-year floodplains....

DEQ fines Clackamas Compost Products, LLC $21,357 for water quality violations (Oregon Department of Environmental Quality)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Apr 2016
(Source ... The composting facility was located at 11620 SE Capps Road in Clackamas. DEQ issued this penalty because stormwater mixed with compost leachate and other wastes discharged from the facility to the floodplain of the Clackamas River where it was likely to get into groundwater or the river....

April 11, 2016 Collaboration for green schools earns Space to Grow national award (MWRD - Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Apr 2016
(Source. MWRD - Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago) f98429fb-5223-4aa5-aa6e-38d0d9f9738f.pdf ... Press Release ... public.affairs@mwrd.org ... In the photo ... and ... 24, 2016 ... The Space to Grow partnership has received many awards, including the USGBC Illinois Chapter Mission Award, the National Physical Activity Plan Champions Award and the Illinois Association of Floodplain and Stormwater Management's Sustainability Award ... ###....
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