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use the money to buy up the flooded properties and raze them.
BUT SUCH “control” follies are not confined to cities and subdivisions. Some farmers who appeared at the “flood control” project hearing mentioned earlier complained that they had “good bottomland” that they couldn’t work with regularity because of the threat of floods. They wanted dams built so these bottomlands would never be flooded and they could farm them all the time.
Maybe we missed a lecture somewhere along the line, or a certain chapter was torn out of the books we read? but it has always been our understanding that bottomland is so rich and fertile in the first place because it is occasionally flooded. The farmer’s gamble has been to risk loss of a crop this year on the knowledge that next year this rich delta would produce crops of sufficient size and quality to make up for the loss and still realize a profit.
THE POINT is that even some of the most high-sounding “improvements” on nature are not always what they seem. Conservationists and pollution fighters discovered this point long ago in the case of sewage treatment plants, which were supposed to have resulted in clean streams but which more often than not wind up as a major source of pollution themselves, and as a far worse catalyst for new and worse forms of pollution.□
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