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#floodplain

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Preston Maness ☭

>texastribune.org/2025/07/09/te

>Some people don’t have a choice but to live in flood-prone areas, where land is typically cheaper. **Often, cities and towns only allow cheaper housing like mobile and manufactured homes to go in places that carry a higher risk of flooding**, said Andrew Rumbach, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute who studies climate risk. When a weather disaster destroys a mobile home park, often it gets rebuilt right where it was, Rumbach said.

Well that's stupid and backwards.

Damage from the flood around a bridge on Highway 39 in Hunt on July 5, 2025.
The Texas Tribune · “Disasters are a human choice”: Texas counties have little power to stop building in flood-prone areasExperts suggested that more data and education are needed as Texas and the rest of the country build in known flood plains.
#TexasTribune#Flooding#FloodPlain
Primo Natura

Looking for some #Positivity to end the week? I have recapped 46 notable #Positive #Environmental and #ClimateChange articles from past month including: how many #ElectricVehicle chargers have been installed in the #UnitedKingdom, #Bangladesh working to bring back five plant species deemed critically endangered, restoring restoring #Floodplain #Wetlands cuts #Carbon #Emissions by 39% and nearly 47% of #Singapore being considered a green space.

primonatura.co.uk/positive-env

Primo Natura · 46 Positive Environmental Success Stories — July 2025The media has an important role to play in combatting climate doom. Therefore, this monthly news round up of positive environmental and climate change news, is designed to spark joy and show that progress is being made. We pick two positive headlines a day, ranging from renewable energy and preservation
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Around the country, construction is highly discouraged in river floodways, where deep and fast-moving waters are expected to travel during flood events, said Anna Serra-Llobet, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in flood risk management.

She said it was particularly problematic to build a camp that houses children in an area so susceptible to flooding, & that efforts should have been made to relocate the cabins."

#Texas #floods #floodplain #CampMystic
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Six years ago, when Camp Mystic pursued a $5 million construction project to overhaul and expand its private, for-profit Christian camp, no effort was made to relocate the most at-risk cabins away from the river. Instead, local officials authorized the construction of new cabins in another part of the camp — including some that also lie in a designated flood-risk area. The older ones along the river remained in use."

#Texas #floods #floodplain #CampMystic
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

RiverREM - Generating River Relative Elevation Model (REM) Visualisations
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github.com/OpenTopography/Rive <-- shared GitHub repository
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opentopography.github.io/River <-- shared documentation
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opentopography.org/blog/new-pa <-- shared Open Topography blog post about RiverREM
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H/T Heidi Luchsinger / Open Topography
[this post should not be considered as an endorsement of this product aka caveat emptor]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #Python #LiDAR #RiverREM #visualisation #hydrology #water #river #rivervalley #floodplain #terraces #GitHub #opensource #opendata #DEM #REM #model #modeling #RiverRelativeModel #documentation #tutorial #learning #tool #elevation #raster #sinuosity #drainage

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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

'Some (TopoBathy) Floodplain Images I Made A Few Years Ago, On The Mississippi R.
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These are some (topobathy) floodplain images I made a few years ago for a specific usecase – and ‘stumbled’ across them again today, lookin’ for something else…
Every time I look at such things, the (engineering) geologist, geomorphologist, (pseudo) hydrologist, spatial data scientist in me is made happy in being reminded what access we have to (often open) spatial data and the sheer volume of it, and the use cases for which it can be leveraged.
We are lucky professionals…
#GIS #spatial #mapping #alldataisspatial #remotesensing #geomorphology #hydrology #water #floodplain #usecase #opendata #LiDAR #geology #geomorphometry #spatialdata #happyprofessional #MississippiRiver #JALBTCX

AI Automations Experimental

Standing Strong Conservation Efforts in the Delicate Balance of the Floodplain

Witness the stunning beauty and delicate balance of the floodplain ecosystem, as the graceful gorilla appears in this inspiring photo taken by renowned photographer Nick Brandt Through his work, he highlights the need fo...

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#StableDiffusion #ai #ArtificialIntelligence #Wildlife #Conservation #Floodplain #Nick-Brandt #Professional-Photography

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