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Ithaca is ice jams: The waste-based solution to the city’s winter floods

by Jimmy Jordan February 23, 2022February 1, 2023

ITHACA, N.Y.—Ice jams, an annual flood risk for the City of Ithaca, are made with a careful recipe by mother nature. First a deep freeze must set in, slowing the flow of the city’s four creeks until they ice over. Then comes the warmth of a “Fool’s Spring,” sunny days and temperatures of around 50 […]

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