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Search results for "flood plain" ...
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Money Down the River
"This package documented how an apartment complex built in a flood plain received $10.7 million -- more than twice its assessed value -- from the National Flood Insurance Program. Basked on figures obtained through FOIA, the story detailed how the federally backed insurance program allowed Willow River Apartments to rebuild time and time again in a flood-prone area where development is no longer allowed."
Tags: FEMA; weather; rain; flood plain; flooding; water damamge; insurance; natural disaster; government spending
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Damage Control; Out of Control
This two-part series on flooding in Houston looks at the relationship between development, city government and the city's flooding problem. City government continues to use outdated flood plans that allow developers to build where they shouldn't, digging inadequate detention ponds and failing to tell homeowners in flood plains that they might want to buy flood insurance.
Tags: floods; FEMA; Federal Emergency Management Agency; developers; FOIA; Harris County Flood Control District; Tropical Storm Frances; floodplain
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City knew houses were in 100-year flood plains
Reporters found San Antonio's flood plain maps were good predictors of where floodwaters would actually go, yet the city did not inform residents about the risks of living in the flood plain. Consequently, many East Side homes suffered grave damage in an October 1998 flood.
Tags: Insurance
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No title (id: 13222)
While environmentalists and the Los Angeles county bicker, a half-million people face disaster from a river that knows no bounds. Buzz investigates how for nearly fifty years, Los Angeles county's flood-control system has prevented catastrophic flooding of the cities on the plain of the Los Angles River, but the Army Corps of Engineers now believes that even moderately heavy rainfall will cause parts of the system to fail endangering thousands.
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May Be Best to Let 'The River Have Its Way'
The PitchWeekly took an in-depth look at the Missouri River, floods, flood prevention and flood damage. An interesting sidebar accompanies this article which deals with climate change possibly increasing flood risks
Tags: Global warming Farmlands flood plain channelizing levee Corps of Engineers
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No title (id: 9589)
Post-Dispatch analyzes the Midwestern floods of '93, focusing primarily on the cycle of destruction caused by failures at the Federal Insurance Administration; the agency doesn't enforce its own rules requiring insurance in flood plains, making the disasters worse when they happen, Nov. 21, 1993.