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On the recordNovember 18, 2019
I take exception to part of it, in that at the end of your point here of hardened landscape, that some of the big problems that we are facing with flooding is development, the hardening of the landscape, land use, the failure to use natural resources to mitigate flood.
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Gary Palmer
Republican · Alabama

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Palmer emphasizes the role of development and land use in flooding issues.

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