Zones
Floodplain is an area that is flooded during this interval of storm
What is a 100-year storm?
This organization regulates and determines floodplain at a nation-wide level
What is FEMA?
This Arizona town, named similarly to a Florida beach town, underwent massive flooding in Fall of 2025.
What is Miami?
This method is represented by the equation Q = CiA
What is Rational?
The Black and White River form this tasty river in eastern Arizona
What is the Salt River?
Kenny Loggin's sings about this zone
What is Danger?
FCDMC stands for this
What is the Flood Control District of Maricopa County?
Floods account for this percent of natural disasters in the US
What is 90%?
The abbreviation TC stands for
What is the Time of Concentration?
This river creates the border between California and Arizona
What is the Colorado River?
SFHA stands for this
What is Special Flood Hazard Area?
This national organization regulates 404 washes
What is US Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) or Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
An engineering failure caused flooding, which created this man-made lake in Southern California
What is the Salton Sea?
This Froude number is the breakpoint between supercritical and subcritical flow
What is 1.00?
San Xavier Del Bac in Tucson is named for being at the mouth of this river.
What is the Santa Cruz River?
Zones within the floodplain caused by riverine flooding begin with this letter
What is A?
FEMA stands for this
What is the Federal Emergency Management Agency?
320,000 gallons of this golden liquid flooded the streets of London in 1814
What is BEER?
This is the numerical coefficient used in Manning's Equation when using standard units
1.486
This wash/flood control project forms a greenbelt that has multiple golf course located within in in the East Valley
What is Indian Bend Wash?
Costal floodplain zones start with this letter
What is V?
NFIP stands for this
What is the National Floodplain Insurance Program?
The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 took place in this east coast American city
What is Boston?
Daniel Bernoulli is the publisher of Bernoulli's equation and is from this European country, more known for its cheese and chocolate
What is Switzerland?
The Little Colorado River and the Colorado River join in this Arizona County
What is Coconino County?