Word: flood-control
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...Angeles, a 20-sq.-mi. depression has formed around the Wilmington oilfield after 35 years of exploitation. At the center of the great bowl lies the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, where a 29-ft. decline in the land level has forced the Navy, oil companies and others to build flood-control dikes. Besides twisting railroad tracks, crushing oil-well casings and undermining buildings, the slumping of the ground has also triggered small earthquakes. To jack up the sunken terrain, the city of Long Beach has been forcing water back into the ground...
Outwardly undaunted, Nixon continued to court a conservative constituency. He invited Mississippi Senators James Eastland and John Stennis to the White House for breakfast. He staged a ceremony for Southern Senators and Congressmen as he signed a $100 million appropriation for Mississippi River flood-control projects. He addressed a Republican congressional dinner and hosted a farewell gathering for his departed aide Melvin Laird...
...keep such devastation from increasing, Army Corps of Engineers flood-control experts have opened three Louisiana spillways since April 8, diverting more than 800,000 cu. ft. of water per sec. But the engineers say that the danger of flooding in the lower valley is certainly not over, nor will it be for at least another six weeks...
Enthusiastic about the success of huge, man-made walls in holding back nature's temperamental floods, an Army Corps of Engineers official said of the flood-control system on the Mississippi River: "It's the greatest invention since women." Though his statement was exaggerated, his pride was justified. In the third worst flood of the century, federally financed dams, levees and spillways last week met severe tests, regulated the swelling river and in seven Mississippi Valley states* kept damage to a relatively low $200 million...
...casualties, not cause them." Actually, that judgment in part seemed to run counter to the views of some U.S. military experts. A secret Air Force report prepared in 1965 for General William Westmoreland, then the U.S. commander in South Viet Nam, concluded that -moral considerations aside-Hanoi's flood-control system could probably not be destroyed by conventional bombing because of the system's massiveness and complexity...