Current regulations in Hamilton County allow essentially unlimited building in a flood plain if it is raised to an elevation at least one foot above the flood zone elevation. The “flood plain” ...

If you live in a flood plain, near a river, or if you live near the coast, you should consider purchasing flood insurance for your home. Your lender may require flood insurance if your home is ...

The river channel is now deep and wide and the landscape around it is flat. A floodplain is the area around a river that is covered in times of flood. This is a large, flat area of land that is ...

A NEW storm pump station, channels, embankments, walls and the establishment of a deliberate flood plain are all part of a ...

It is still in the early stages of design, but city leaders are developing a program that would offer financial help to those homeowners in the floodplain. There are about 4,000 homes, businesses ...

The primary “hardship” that justifies the variance is a Federal Emergency Management Agency prohibition on building a basement for the addition in the floodplain occupied by the house ...

One business owner, who could not get buildings insurance, turned the ground floor of their building in to a flood plain so water could flow freely inside and out. Despite the changes many people ...

Home builders and property owners in Oregon claim in court that federal regulators exceeded their authority when they imposed new land-use restrictions under the guise of a federal floodplain ...

The Caloosahatchee River reservoir has long been touted as one way to improve the health of the ailing river, which acts as a flood plain at times for Lake Okeechobee. "I anticipate this is ...