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Comments on: S&T professor is “go-to guy” for flood-control history https://news.mst.edu/2021/03/st-professor-is-go-to-guy-for-flood-control-history/ Your source for the latest from Rolla Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:20:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 By: Kay Modi https://news.mst.edu/2021/03/st-professor-is-go-to-guy-for-flood-control-history/#comment-249529 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:02:38 +0000 https://news.mst.edu/?p=36563#comment-249529 Great story telling with science providing the framework of what challenges lie ahead. My farming families in Missouri have expectations that the solutions remain with engineering away the flooding problems. Yet they are unwilling to change their farming practices for land use, appropriate buffers (riparian systems in the upper most reaches of all tributaries that feed the Missouri River), and man-made reservoirs to hold back waters without taking responsibility for filling them up with silt from their own farms.

Without science based solutions to adjust business strategies for long term success, Missouri’s agriculture seems stuck back in the old days.

I appreciate your efforts to work within these challenged times.

Regards, Kay Modi (ChE ’79)

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