Bibliograph

Drowning a county, when urban myths destroy rural drainage, Carol J. Bova ; contributions by G.C. Morrow

Type

Label

Drowning a county, when urban myths destroy rural drainage, Carol J. Bova ; contributions by G.C. Morrow

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

chartsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Drowning a county

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

896678043

Responsibility statement

Carol J. Bova ; contributions by G.C. Morrow

Series statement

Local authors project

Sub title

when urban myths destroy rural drainage

Summary

VDOT uses institutional myths to explain decades-long neglect of the highway drainage system in Mathews County, Virginia. This book's extensive documentation unmasks the facts and offers viable solutions for the near-total drainage failure flooding properties and timberlands, fostering cyanobacteria and mosquitoes, endangering the marshes and Chesapeake Bay's water quality. A rural Chesapeake Bay peninsula with the same population and 10% of the agriculture of 1910, Mathews has no urban stormwater management issues. Restored grass-lined highway drainage ditches and outfall ditches can again provide natural watershed drainage and biofiltration of highway runoff as they had for nearly a century

Target audience

general

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