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Flood: High water flow or an overflow of rivers or streams from their natural or artificial banks, inundating adjacent low lying areas.

Double Flood: A flood tidal current having two maxima of speed separated by a smaller flood speed.

Flood Certification Fee: A fee charged to determine if the property lies in a flood zone and whether flood insurance is required.

Flood Risk Reduction Program: Provides for contracts for producers on farms that have contract acreage under Title I of the FAIR Act of 1996 that are frequently flooded. Individuals can receive up to 95% of transition pa . . . View Full Definition

Duration Of Flood And Duration Of Ebb: Duration of flood is the interval of time in which a tidal current is flooding, and duration of ebb is the interval in which it is ebbing, these intervals being reckoned from the middle of t . . . View Full Definition

Flood Axis: The average set of the tidal current at strength of flood.

Flood Strength: Phase of the flood tidal current at the time of maximum speed. Also, the speed at this time. See strength of current.

Flood Interval: The interval between the transit of the Moon over the meridian of a place and the time of the following flood strength.

Flood Current: The movement of a tidal cur-rent toward the shore or up a tidal river or estuary. In the mixed type of reversing current, the terms greater flood and lesser flood are applied respectively to . . . View Full Definition

Watershed And Flood Prevention Operations: A program area of the Natural Resources Conservation Service that includes Flood Prevention Operations (under the Flood Control Act of 1944, P.L. 78-534), Emergency Watershed Protection, and . . . View Full Definition