Some low-lying neighborhoods may become parks or marshland if they do not attract enough housing development.
Fingers of tea-colored water wrapped around bridges, spilled across fields and reached into low-lying neighborhoods.
In this era, noble families were abandoning the low-lying neighborhoods of Naples for higher ground.
Many of those low-lying neighborhoods were home to the city's poorest people, adding racial and economic complexity to an environmental issue.
Parts of some low-lying neighborhoods in South Lake Charles were flooded.
Reduce flood risk based on Wildcat Creek's 100-year flood flows and improve stormwater management in low-lying neighborhoods.
The institute's planners did not recommend that entire low-lying neighborhoods be returned to marshland, a politically volatile idea that some environmentalists have suggested.
Hanna returned to the area and in the Turks and Caicos, floods hit low-lying neighborhoods throughout the archipelago.
He said last month's gloomy report on global warming prompted four former clients who had bought downtown to voice concern about living in low-lying neighborhoods.
But those floods did little more than fill streets and basements in low-lying neighborhoods near the Raritan.