Levees, Howard Hanson Dam threaten Green River Valley


Remind me: why did we build on a flood plain?

I can’t help but wonder — what part of building a community in a flood plain never struck anybody as being a problem until now [“Decaying levee magnify Green River flood risk,” page one, Dec. 29]?

— Ron Dickson, Seattle

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