Every year towns and some cities get flooded due to spring snow melts, what can be done to stop it?|180547

Both in the USA and Canada their are folks flooded out of their houses by spring melts, unusual storms or swelling rivers. How can the stimulus package help?

What can be done to _stop_ the flooding ?? STOP building on FLOOD PLAINS !!!

Levee_s, Dams, and Flood Channels just DIRECT water... often causing further issues DOWNSTREAM. Just take a look at New Orleans... half the city is reclaimed land, yet they (the city and State of Louisiana) refused to pay the billions it would cost to maintain and upgrade the levees, and now it costs the Federal Government even MORE to pay for their negligence.

YES, there are projects that CAN be built... in certain areas... Japan built a system near Tokyo (Atsugi) that includes underground _tanks_ that are a mile long, half mile wide, and 100 yards deep... to divert flood-waters. Of course, this was built at a cost of over $200 billion.

I WAS impressed during coverage of the Red River flooding... CNN was discussing _invisible walls_. Individual levees of concrete surrounding a structure, and the _gates_ have drop in panels. These systems are in use around the world, and have saved structures... though they are usually paid for by the property owner.

The stimulus package could do nothing against this phenomena. The conservation of our environment and the safety associated with it lies in our own hands, as the looming threat of the global warming grows more, I can only advice those who live there to make sure that they have an inflatable boat on standby, as preparation for floods to come by.

By making sure people like you get an education that the economy has nothing to do with natural disasters.