Word: flood-control
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...wretched sewer system that would cost at least $1,000,000 to modernize. In a heavy rain the sewers back up into the prosperous residents' basements. In addition, there is what Mrs. Margaret Jordan, lawyer and city councilwoman, calls "the specter of Tomahawk Creek Reservoir"-a proposed federal flood-control project that would create recreational facilities open to nonresidents. Another city council member puts the dilemma of Leawood's future neatly: "We know that change is inevitable, but we want to keep things the way they...
...recent availability and control of water. It was always there, but it either lay inaccessible 500 feet below the surface, or turned to torrents in destructive floods. The answer to both problems was dams. Senator Mike Monroney championed the ranchers in the western part of the state who wanted small reservoirs for their dry-land irrigation. Until his death in 1963, Senator Robert S. Kerr lobbied for large flood-control dams in the river-ravaged east. As Monroney recently explained it: "We incorporated the little-dam program into the big-dam program to create the best damn program...
...rises do not slow markedly in another three or four months, the Administration may have to curb credit and spending still more. The President moved in that direction at week's end by ordering a 75% slash in federal spending on Government office buildings, rivers and harbors and flood-control projects...
...through the swamps as a strange kind of river, less than a foot deep and up to 50 miles wide. Changes in the water's quality, quantity and seasonal rhythms endanger the park's incredibly diverse plants and wildlife. And yet, for the past two decades, nearby flood-control projects have steadily dehydrated the glades by diverting water to crop land, commercial and industrial use. The Everglades, explains Park Superintendent Jack Raftery, "is a demonstration that no natural region can be divorced from its surroundings...
...resources like grazing lands or forests. The Federal Government has an obligation as a great landowner. I think we can find land, in addition to our great scenic or wild areas, which can be utilized to a higher degree, and we can improve on nature by reclamation, irrigation and flood-control projects. With the right management, we might graze a cow on half the land it takes now. Maybe we can improve on the time it takes to grow and harvest forests. Maybe we should conserve natural beauty not just for viewing but for putting oxygen back into...