flood plain

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• For example, surveys of the flood plains in the area indicate elevated levels of fluoride, cyanide, PCBs, and PAHs—suggesting these chemicals could stem from the Alcoa sites despite remediation efforts.

  A North Carolina town struggles under the toxic shadow of the company that built it | Emily Cataneo/Undark | December 17, 2021 | Popular-Science

• At Little Falls, Minn., flood-plain, deposits of sand and gravel are found to contain many artificial objects of quartz.

  The Myths of the North American Indians | Lewis Spence

• Those using the slough are almost certainly permanent inhabitants of the river flood plain.

  Field Study of Kansas Ant-Eating Frog | Henry S. Fitch

• In times of flood they are carried far away from the regular channel and spread over the wide flood-plain of the river.

  The Adventures of a Grain of Dust | Hallam Hawksworth

• The extension seaward of this flood plain forms the broad delta at the river's mouth.

  North America | Israel C. Russell