[Marak]

What about bulldozing the flooded homes and leaving the materials as fill then adding more fill to raise the areas well above the level of the lake? Is taht practical?

[Arizona Carolyn]

This program they are showing on the history of this on Discovery is very good... shows the big flood of '27 that led to the dams and locks.

[Alberta's Child]

You can't leave bulldozed homes as fill, because lumber is inherently unstable and will settle quickly. Adding more fill to raise the level of the city above sea level would be such a monumental operation (I think I remember seeing an estimate that more than a billion cubic yards of fill would be needed) that it would be very impractical. At 30 cubic yards per truckload, that would be more than 33.3 million truckloads. At 1,000 truckloads per day (that's a huge operation), it would take 91 years just to bring in all that fill.