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[Johnny2X2X]

1. Dealing with this directly right now

Here in West Michigan, there is constant building in previously green space. Several large apartment complexes on the North East side of Grand Rapids have done an awful job of drain management. It's wrecking havoc over many square miles. They had to completelyt tear out a main road to redo the drain pipes underneath and they're spending $tens of millions to add new drainage. This is causing flooding and damage to land both private and public.

So these builders do a crappy job with drain planning, the city doesn't properly hold them to standards, and the results are damage to private property in the area, and the taxpayers get stuck paying $tens of millions to redo drainage in the whole area. Not to mention the harm to local wild life.

Absolutely a typical case of privatizing the profit and making the public take on all the risk. the b uiolders and the owners of these new apartment and condo complexes made out, they did a cheap job and are reaping the profits while the taxpayers fix their mess.

My home is adjacent to protected wetlands, and they're learning nothing from the mess up the road, they're allowing several complexes to be built right on the edge of protected wetlands and they'll do little to plan the drainage proiperly again.