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On the recordNovember 18, 2019
One example of failure to mitigate, and I do not want to be disparaging toward the Corps of Engineering, but they studied building a diversion canal from the Comite River over to the Lilly Bayou in Louisiana for 30 years and never put a shovel in the ground.
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Gary Palmer
Republican · Alabama

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Palmer criticizes the Corps of Engineers for delayed flood mitigation efforts.

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