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Flood experts urge limits on low lying development
Flood officials and scientists urge shift from dams and levees to strict flood plain zoning. Congress debates cutting federal funds to flood prone areas unless development is regulated. Experts warn past efforts fail and call for shared costs and stronger local controls to curb flood damage.
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Drummond Ayers Jr
N.Y
Washington
Mississippi Valley
mid-Atlantic
Nixon
Congress
Haven
Army Corps of Engineers
Corps
New Orleans
Frederick Clarke
United States
Agnes
Mississippi
National Water Commission
Commission
Donald Crabill
White House
Natural Resources Division
Office of Management and Budget
Luna Leopold
United States Geological Survey
University of California At Berkeley
Capitol Hill
Florida
Louisiana
Wilkes-Barre
George Bernstein
Thomas Barlow