Giant flood wall
The Parkersburg community
garden sits right next to a giant flood wall.
It was built in 1950 with a
gate that can be closed in case of really high waters.
According to google it has never needed to be closed.
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"It has never needed to be closed yet".
Global warming isn't over yet. There will probably be a first time.
I hope it's in better repair than (say) the levees and flood walls around New Orleans were in 2005.
Here in the Netherlands we have around 13670 miles of dikes (levees). Upkeep of those costs around $1650 million per year. That's a lot of money but it's nice to be able to sleep at night without having to fear drowning in your own bed!
According to this new story:
According to the linked story the city is currently not eligable for maintanance program funding because they didn't carry out some inspections.
To me that just sounds plain crazy. In the Netherlands we pay a lot of money for levee maintenance. But you don't hear people grumble about it. Water is a force of nature that is best not trifled with.