• PointAndClique [they/them]
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    1 month ago

    Golf courses are often built on floodplains, so tbh converting them into protected grassland/wetlands/carbon sinks may be better than building dense housing in flood prone areas. But ofc case by case basis according to topography

    • Dessa [she/her]
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      1 month ago

      What would be involved in converting them back into flood plains?

      • PointAndClique [they/them]
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        1 month ago

        It's not my field of expertise but not much I'd imagine - floodplains are usually low lying flat areas that flood waters will settle in anyways given expected rainfall patterns, and/or due to their proximity to rivers, levees, lakes and dams. You'd dismantle whatever infrastructure was in-place (irrigation systems, filtration, the club house) and let it re-wild.