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...prefer steeper terrain, then the town of Zabljak, in the mountainous Durmitor region, is well worth a visit. Although there are only four lifts, these access some dramatic chutes and superb powder fields with virtually no competition for your fresh tracks. It's there that the beautiful Tara River runs through Europe's longest canyon, and there are 20 peaks over 6,500 ft. (2,000 m), overlooking 18 gorgeous lakes, so it is not surprising that discussions are under way to set up a heli-skiing operation...
That is likely to affect the cities of Auburn, Kent, Renton and Tukwila, all located along the river, which runs from the Cascade Mountains to Elliott Bay, north of Seattle. It is an area where industry and real estate bloomed as its population surged - by 68% between 1980 and 2000 alone, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation. Some 350,000 people are estimated to live in the Green River Valley. Last January, because of torrential rains, the river rose 10 ft. higher than it ever had before and severely damaged the dam. This winter, with the likelihood...
...state of emergency in early September, likely months before the dreaded event. Government officials have requested $40 million in federal funding to prepare - the dam is a federal facility - in addition to another $16 million from the Army Corps of Engineers devoted specifically to bolstering levees down the river. While Washington's congressional delegates fight for the money in the nation's capital, preparations and public-awareness campaigns are already under way - including driving home the importance of purchasing flood insurance, and buying it right away...
...flood insurance when there's a 1 in 3 chance that you'll need to use it? That's generally not a gamble insurers like to take. Fortunately for Green River Valley, King County belongs to the National Flood Insurance Program, which means that residents cannot be turned down for flood insurance (unless they've built something in direct violation of regional flood codes, that is), and that effectively, even though some 90 insurance companies administer the policies, it is the government providing the insurance itself. "There is nobody in the Green River area that should not be able...
...started dredging out Lake Pichola to make it suitable as an irrigation and drinking source for the general population. In 1890, Maharana Fateh Singh inaugurated a project that geography professor Narpat Singh Rathore of Udaipur's Mohanlal Sukhadia University calls the "the world's first man-made microsystem of river diversion, linkage and watershed management," the result of which constitutes the current system of eight interconnected and gradually descending lakes. (See the top 10 things you didn't know about national parks...