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Battered by floods, U.S. river communities try new remedies

by AP Environmental Writer
| April 28, 2020 9:27 AM

ARNOLD, Mo. (AP) — Hollywood Beach Road was once such prime real estate that the neighborhood had its own airstrip, enabling well-heeled residents to zip back and forth between homes in nearby St. Louis and weekend cottages on the Meramec River in suburban Arnold, Missouri.

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