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point here. There are a great many projects, both public and private, which are simply too ambitious, too sweeping. Too many projects in recent years, to use the vernacular, have been cases of “overkill.” Projects are undertaken on a vastly bloated scale when something far more modest and practical would have sufficed .
The Salem Church Dam and similar engineering stunts designed to “control” nature, constitute but one example. Huge, multi-land highway projects which prove to be selfdefeating—generating more new traffic than they handle in the way of old traffic—provide another example of engineering overkill. Proposals for huge, staggeringly expensive regional water treatment plants represent still another.
WE’RE ALL familiar with the list, which includes a state government which insists on forcing upon small, rural counties programs which are too elaborate and too expensive for the communities, and which in some instances aren’t really even needed.
One grandiose plan has been abandoned. If current economic conditions are to carry any benefits at all, maybe we’ll see some more go the same route. □
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