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The city of Los Angeles acts as a natural flood basin where the surface flows that come from the Santa Monica and San Gabriel mountain ranges travel across the city to reach the Pacific Ocean.  This natural system experiences an occasional 100 year flood, where water reaches extreme levels. In 1938, the city experienced the… Read more »

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A hundred years ago, landscape architect Arthur Comey proposed Houston’s first comprehensive city plan. In his plan, Comey envisioned the city’s bayous overlaid with a network of parks and trails. As he wrote, the “bayous and creek valleys readily lend themselves to trails and parks and cannot so advantageously be used for any other purpose.”… Read more »

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Last month, the Army Corp of Engineers opened the Morganza Spillway – effectively flooding farmlands, homes and communities – in order to save Baton Rouge and New Orleans. This was only the second time that the spillway has been opened its history. As I describe in my post on MetropolisPOV, this is not a remarkable… Read more »

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