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Des Moines Register: Changes in Iowa's weather patterns, landscape, cities and farms have rendered some of the state's most trusted flood prevention safeguards outmoded and inadequate, a review by The Des Moines Register shows.
That includes the state's system of dams - including Saylorville upstream from Des Moines - which were designed to meet climate conditions and a lay of the land that some scientists say haven't existed for decades.
That leaves Iowans, their homes and their businesses increasingly at risk......
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River rage: Why Iowa’s flood risk is rising
Posted by Des Moines Register: Perry Beeman on January 2nd, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation