In dry seasons, restored floodplains can be wildlife preserves. But they also can be soccer fields, golf courses, even farm fields for annual crops like tomatoes or melons.

Some maps used as the basis for floodplains, floodplain development and flood insurance requirements in McHenry County, for instance, are 40 years old. “A lot of them are accessible,” Coletti ...

Efforts to make room for rivers to spread out on floodplains hold promise as a solution to capture and store water — and to help struggling fish and ecosystems.

Surprisingly, dry ass Arizona—which, need I remind you, is surrounded by zero water—saw the largest share of its population living in the combined floodplains.

Opinion; Flood of Confusion: FEMA's floodplain rules leave property owners high and dry . Published: ; Apr. 27, 2010, 9:02 a.m.

The floodplain home prices aren’t fully accounting for the costs of flood insurance, and are therefore overvalued by about five to 10 percent, or $44 billion across the entire market.