@futurebird @arclight @Okanogen @FeralRobots
This was a thing in the South of France.
35-ish years ago, there were wide-scale floods, so every town in the South oof France built flood mitigation defences.
25 years ago, in Nimes, the town council were complaining about the constant maintenance bills for something "that we will never need..."
That year, they decided to ok the funding, but it was going to be reviewed next year.
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