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Respecting and seeing a renaissance of the watershed's carrying capacity presents a powerful argument for neighborhood empowerment to reject payola politics: the greed and corporate-personhood of the developer greasing the skids by writing the legislation, then profiteering from that legislation, after paying the politician, with both the developer and the compromised politician threatening, exhorting and coercing the constituency to share their viewpoints with bureaucratic layers of immunity provided by the one-party town politic.
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Watershed sensitivity describes a watershed's ability to withstand stress and manipulation.
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Better land use around a city depends on zoning and other legal devices to regulate the density and distribution of construction, and on controls over the way land is shaped, and a sharp conflict developed between the watershed's defenders and the Council of Montgomery County, Maryland, in office at that time, whose rezonings in favor of standard massive suburbanization and whose failure to enact sediment-control ordinances threatened the whole effort.
The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior United States. Dept. of the Interior.
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GERONIMO - The public could get a first look Wednesday evening at possible flood control measures to come on Geronimo and Alligator creeks - along with floodplain maps that expand the area of the county considered to be in the watershed's 100-year floodplain.
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GERONIMO - The public could get a first look Wednesday evening at possible flood control measures to come on Geronimo and Alligator creeks - along with floodplain maps that expand the area of the county considered to be in the watershed's 100-year floodplain.
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"Keeping the watershed's forests and river corridors in or near their natural condition is the key to maintaining the natural value of the Eightmile system, such as its clean drinking water, natural flood control and wildlife habitat," said Nathan Frohling, director of The Nature Conservancy's Lower Connecticut River Program.
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GERONIMO - The public could get a first look Wednesday evening at possible flood control measures to come on Geronimo and Alligator creeks - along with floodplain maps that expand the area of the county considered to be in the watershed's 100-year floodplain.
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GERONIMO - The public could get a first look Wednesday evening at possible flood control measures to come on Geronimo and Alligator creeks - along with floodplain maps that expand the area of the county considered to be in the watershed's 100-year floodplain.
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Participants can help guide and make recommendations regarding USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service assistance with some of the watershed's most pressing natural resource concerns through its technical and financial assistance programs and activities.
Greeley Tribune - Top Stories Staff reports 2010
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Of the watershed's 58 square miles, about 90 percent are in Kenton County and about 10 percent are in Boone County.
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