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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fairfax county built, at some expense, a dyke to reduce flooding in Huntington. It would have been cheaper to purchase the property in the long run because there is no continuing maintenance. However, the housing in question was low income and there is no where for these people to go. So it's a problem the county doesn't want to address correctly.

Flood plains also change and what was once developable land may not be anymore. Or developers grease the wheels to build in the only remaining and cheap land--flood plains. They just need to get the property rezoned.[/quote]

Flood plains change because increased development upstream in the watershed increases the amount of water run-off. And when zoning planners don't take such things into account and mitigate it, then the jurisdiction those planners work for needs to be held responsible for the damage their flawed plans created.

This isn't rocket science... well actually it's hydrology, so it's water science - which is a lot easier to understand than rocket science.  [/quote]

It's environmental science actually. Rocket science preceded it by a few decades. [/quote]

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