The highway department said But in too many places, the flood water receded pressure to develop lands sufficiently to reopen the along the river for westbound lanes of Interstate residential or commercial use 40 between Hazen and Brinkley has led planners to forget this morning. what they learned, raising SPEAKING OF FLOODING: UCA the risk of terrible losses history faculty member David should a levee break. Smarter Welky has an op-ed in the New engineering, not just higher York Times today that points levees, is needed to make out how much worse damage sure the rivers stay under from flooding would have been control. but for the federal Nevertheless, it’s the spirit government's major investment of 1937 that we must embrace: in flood control following The great flood of 2011 would the catastrophic floods of be truly cataclysmic had the 1937. More work is needed, he Roosevelt administration not says, including thought to invested in public works and creating "natural river embraced the proposition that defenses" — places where careful, centralized planning flooding is allowed rather can produce enormous social than building levees or pump and economic rewards. stations.
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