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Re:How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn It into a Sp... by mnw21cam on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @08:53AM (#15861023)
It depends if you have somewhere benign to drain all the water into. If there is a population downstream that might get annoyed if you dump lots of run-off on them, then making your land more sponge-like can be really useful. If "downstream" is the ocean a mile away, not so much.
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Re:How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn It into a Sp... by wanderr on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @09:09AM (#15861113)
There is also potentially a lot of benefit to having the water enter the soil and eventually make its way down into the aquifer instead of just shunting it "away".
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