Example of growth in many flood plain and brings wealth and risks
ST. LOUIS _ Ten years ago this summer, the flood of 1993 flooded the Midwest. More than 1000 levees failed, 70000 houses were damaged and 50 people died. The damage amounted to at least $ 12 billion.
But soon after went to the water, some saw a way for flows in the muddy ground of gold mines. Construction, including a large portion of government subsidies, has filled the river Mississippi and Missouri valleys.
The result is cash, such as water flows. But what will happen if the next high tide?
More than $ 2.2 billion in value of new construction in the area of St. Louis is on land, under water in the stream of 1993.
The construction boom, jobs, services and tax revenue from the region, but it could lead to a more costly disaster in the future.
Development is a flood plain risky match against the Missouri River and drove on matrices countries more than in any other country hit by the tide, according to a study conducted for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Over the past ten years, offices, shopping malls and highways, at least 4200 hectares of Missouri flood plain, most of them were under water. And it is still at work.
Ongoing projects or subscription Boards in the counties of St. Louis and St. Charles, 13000 hectares of farmland to convert plain flooded commerce and housing.
Since the flood, development interests have pushed with a new zeal to control the flow of alluvial zones, the most open, closed, left in the region of St. Louis. City officials and landowners have worked hand in hand with developers, for the benefits of regulation liberal and generous government subsidies for flood plain and development.
James Lee Witt, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the presidency of Bill Clinton, stipulates that development costs of the new flood plain and benefits to society.
“If in the flood plain, it is not in a good sector,” said Witt. “Is me, whatever the number of levees to build, at some point, you will be affected.
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