Flooding in Portage, WI

A 120 year old sand levee failed in Portage, WI. The flooding in the Wisconsin River overcame the levee due to old technology and flooded throughout Portage. The materials used to build the levee are sand versus the steel and concrete modern engineers would use today. New technology is part of some main geography arguments. As we add more technology into our environment, the more the environment is influenced. Once the environment eventually depends on that technology, if something goes wrong, the hazardous results could be worse than what that technology was originally placed there to prevent. Unfortunately this is what happened during this flood.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/27/wisconsin.flooding/index.html