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Early settlers on this continent found the forests and grasslands
interspersed with swamps, ponds, and marshes. But now 55% of
America's wetlands have been drained and we still lose more than 400,000
acres of wetlands every year.
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The Oxbow is a broad floodplain where the Great Miami River empties
into the Ohio. This area where three states - Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky
- come together, is near Lawrenceburg, Indiana, seventeen miles downstream
from Cincinnati.
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In the summer of 1985, political and business leaders announced
plans to create a major new port authority and build a 700-acre commercial
barge shipping center on this floodplain.
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