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I live 2 miles from the ocean in MA. We have a few small rivers that overrun the banks every spring. Some years they get blown out if we got a lot of snow. For decades my town and those around us have requested permission to build reservoirs to store all this water that otherwise flows out to sea. Every year by Memorial Day, these rivers become too low and water-use bans are put in place. Not as bad as the west coast, but still very restrictive. The reason we have this issue is that the DEP refuses to grant permission to divert the water for later use. So much for saving natural resources.
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