FEMA should conduct preparedness drill in the Green River Valley
The Federal Emergency Management Agency should augment local efforts to respond to the risks associated with the storm damage to the Green River Valley and Howard Hanson Dam, write U.S. Reps. Dave Reichert and Adam Smith. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu - via AllTop, Seattle Times
In 1979 voters approved setting aside land in the valley for preserving farm land close to Seattle. Developers bought their way into rezoning the valley industrial. Now it is all industrial ticky-tacky warehouses, and in danger of expensive flooding from a poorly designed dam for a river that has been converted from a river to an Army Corps ugly drainage ditch. The developers should be sued.