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<br />GLOSSARY OF TERMS <br /> <br />"000 <br /> <br />An overflow on landS not nor~ally covered by water and <br />that lire used or usable by man. Floods hllVe two essential char- <br />acteristics: (Ilthe Inund<ltionof land iste'lloorary; and (2) <br />the land is adjacent to and inundated by overflow fr~ a river, <br />stream, an oce~n, a lake, or other body 01 standing water. <br /> <br />NorMally a flOOd is considered as any temporary rise In <br />streamflow or stage, but not the pondlng of surface water, that <br />results Insl<1nlficantlldverseeffectsintheviclnlty. Adverse <br />effects may include damages from overflow of land areas, tempor- <br />ary backwater effects in sewers and local draInage channels, <br />creation of unsanitary conditions or other unfavorablo situations <br />by deposItion of materIals in stream channels during flood reces- <br />sions, rise of ground water coincident with increased streamflow, <br />and other problems. <br /> <br />Flood Crest <br />The ~xlmum staqe or olevati~ reached by t~ waters of <br />a flOOd at 11 given location. <br /> <br />FloodPlain <br />The relatively flat area or low lands adjoining the <br />chllnneiefarlver,stream,watcrcourSa,ocoan,la"""orother <br />body of standing w~ter which has been or 'll~Y b~ covered ~y flood- <br />wllter. <br /> <br />flood Profile <br />^<1rapns"owingtherolationShipofwlltersurfJceele. <br />vation to iocation, the lattor generally exrr~55ed ~~ ~i~t~nrn <br /> <br />" <br />