Present flood plain maps (prepared in 2005) are totally redundant and out of order now.
Because we all know everyone who lost their home in Hurricane Katrina and Rita lived in a flood plain.
Historically, such settlements have clung to the higher ground on the flood plain.
"The May 2010 storm event should have been an endurable, natural event at or below the 100-year flood plain, " the lawsuit said.
Rep. ROSS: FEMA's excuse that they give, which is not a good one, is that they won't locate a manufactured home to a flood plain.
The agency will locate mobile homes in flood plains now, she says, if they're placed on a fixed foundation that complies with federal flood plain regulations.
In reality, the huge economic losses attributed to flooding in recent years are mainly a reflection of economic growth, increased investment in infrastructure and rapidly growing flood plain populations.
Many areas are simply impossible to protect, such as the Brahmaputra valley in Assam, where one of the mightiest rivers in the world keeps changing its course on its flat flood plain.
The lawsuit refers to the so-called 100-year flood plain, which maps the area that could be affected by the type of flooding that statistically can be expected to happen once in a century.
They spawn at the end of the dry season, so that the coming floods can carry the fry to the flood-plain.
Moreover, much of the flood-plain is actually forest, which provides a particularly nutritious array of rotting leaves for the fish to feed on.
Dams for irrigation, meanwhile, have a doubly damaging impact on fisheries: they not only hold back water, but also encourage the conversion of forest to farmland in the flood-plain.
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