Louisiana’s flood couldn’t have been stopped, but it didn’t have to be so devastating

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By Heather SmithAug 22, 2016, 5:17 pm157 pts
Louisiana’s Amite river basin, which flooded and destroyed 60,000 homes earlier this month, is surrounded by deserted flood control projects that were begun after a massive flood in 1983. All that proposed infrastructure could have saved thousands of homes — but the Amite River Basin Commission left them…

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