River and flood plain: friend or foe
This issue of The Balance covers the advantages of reserving the floodplain to provide for open space purposes, such as recreation and agriculture, and to reduce flood losses. It also covers the historical background of flood-prone land use, trends in flood-control methods, and ways that floodplains...
| Main Author: | United States. Department of the Interior |
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| Format: | Text |
| Language: | English eng |
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1969
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https://hdl.handle.net/11166/168849 http://archives.mountainscholar.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17393coll32/id/11177 |