Word: flood-control
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Rogers is the answer to those who believe the G.O.P. is the party of the wealthy: the Fifth District is one of the poorest in the nation and Rogers is running unopposed. His ability to help bring in flood-control projects, education development and a musical-arts center in Prestonsburg have helped make him a popular incumbent, no matter what party he belongs...
...report on flooding along the Pajaro River [CALIFORNIA, March 27] stated that the residents blamed the preservation of the habitat of the endangered Santa Cruz long-toed salamander for preventing local officials from improving water flow. There is, however, no evidence that this salamander is even in theriver, and flood-control projects have not been postponed for its benefit...
Many opponents of Three Gorges have no quarrel with the effort to move away from coal toward hydropower. But they argue that for a lower price, numerous smaller dams could produce more power and greater flood-control benefits. They fear that a dam so large on the notoriously muddy Yangtze will lead to dangerous buildups of silt in some parts of the river, creating new obstacles to navigation and causing floods upstream. Chinese officials respond that both big and small dams are needed. Indeed, 10 projects smaller than Three Gorges, with a total capacity of nearly 12,000 megawatts...
...levees built up over more than 200 years may be working too well. As the flood recedes and cities like Davenport begin the dismal task of cleaning up, sharp questions are being raised about the wisdom of the nation's approach to flood control, and the cost, both financial and environmental, of a program that relies on man-made structures to contain the mighty river. Over the past seven decades, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has spent billions of dollars constructing an elaborate flood-control network, including 7,000 miles of levees, along the Mississippi and the rivers that...
...ordinary human activity -- not just the Corps of Engineers -- that has robbed the Mississippi basin of its most precious resource: the wetlands and riparian forests that once absorbed excess rainwater like so many giant sponges. In fact, the displacement of this natural flood-control system by an artificial one may, over time, increase the number of record-busting floods...