For over two thousand years, it has been playing a role in the Chengdu Plain flood irrigation, as people from the flood, the vast" the land of abundance".

两千多年来，它一直发挥着防洪灌溉作用，使成都平原成为水旱从人、沃野千里的“天府之国”。

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Rainfall was limited, and what water there was rushed across the plain in the annual flood of melted snow.

降雨量有限，每年融化的雪水洪流冲过平原，成为滋润此地的水源。

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Public interest litigation has threatened to slow down some construction, such as the Olympic Village being built in the flood plain of the Yamuna River.

涉及公众利益的诉讼已经威胁到了一些建设的进度，例如建造在亚穆纳河冲积平原上的奥运村。

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There are sycamores, elms, maples, poplars on a fertile flood plain along the river.

CNN: When autumn leaves fall

Present flood plain maps (prepared in 2005) are totally redundant and out of order now.

UNESCO: NATURAL SCIENCES

Fears have been raised by residents over plans to earmark greenbelt flood plain for 3, 500 homes.

BBC: Stoke Gifford: Fear over greenbelt homes plan