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How cities can use rain gardens to help prevent flooding (phys.org)
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Canada's capital, Ottawa, was bombarded with 167 millimeters (6.6 inches) of rain in five hours earlier this summer in what the city called a 1-in-200-year event. Close to 5,800 reports of basement flooding followed, and the worst of it hit the city's west end, including the Crystal Beach neighborhood.

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The ideas are there, now they just need to be applied. Conservatives like to cite these approaches, it makes them look knowledgeable and look active; in reality they implement zero, scratch, nill , nought.

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