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Also in attendance: Nashville architect Alan Dooley, who helped the church win a historic designation for the building, and that allowed Metro Codes to issue permits for the rebuild, even though the building is (clearly) in a floodway.
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The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
For one thing, the equipment and restrooms sit right in the floodway, and are often a few inches deep in standing water when Walnut Creek overflows after heavy rainfall.
—Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2024
The development would be built up to the edge of the creek's floodway, an area where flooding would be significant in a flood event.
—Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2024
Instead, the torrents were guided east through a much broader floodway to the Dongdian flood storage zone near Bazhou, where villages were inundated.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
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The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
For one thing, the equipment and restrooms sit right in the floodway, and are often a few inches deep in standing water when Walnut Creek overflows after heavy rainfall.
—Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2024
The development would be built up to the edge of the creek's floodway, an area where flooding would be significant in a flood event.
—Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2024
Instead, the torrents were guided east through a much broader floodway to the Dongdian flood storage zone near Bazhou, where villages were inundated.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
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“Floodway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/floodway. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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