underwater towns ready for the dam
Created for Page Huyette who asked “I'm researching an idea for novel I'm writing, and wondering how many towns around the world have been flooded and are now completely underwater to make way for dams”
underwater towns ready for the dam
Created for Page Huyette who asked “I'm researching an idea for novel I'm writing, and wondering how many towns around the world have been flooded and are now completely underwater to make way for dams”
In 1920, New Orleans boasted six pumping stations, including the Melpomene. These allowed “the old swamps” to be drained and converted into new communities, like Lakeview and Gentilly. Today there are twenty-four stations, which together operate one hundred and twenty pumps. During a storm, rain is funneled into a Venice’s-worth of canals. Then
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