They began pushing for an intricate system of drainage canals leading to the ocean to dry out the land, protect it against future flooding and provide drinking water for new residents.
It would involve far more than just higher levees: there would have to be extensive changes to the city's system of drainage canals and pumps, environmental restoration on a vast scale to replenish buffering wetlands and barrier islands, and even sea gates far out of town near the Gulf of Mexico.
A riparian corridor, hedgerows, a system of drainage ditches, and tailwater ponds supported different plant life history/functional groups and greater native plant diversity than the two production fields.
Particularly, the system of drainage holes (Fig. 6) in the roof must be maintained and kept in good shape.
A committee was appointed by this meeting, with Mr. Brittin as chairman, which ultimately adopted his views and formulated a plan destined to result eventually in the great system of drainage and sewerage that is now being carried to completion in the city.
Florida is a special case because in addition to rising seas and storm surges, its geology and system of drainage canals pose complex problems.
