To the Editor,
Changing climate patterns mean that we need to think in terms of when another flood might occur in our community, rather than if. Over the past months, the Wilmington Planning Commission has been studying a new way to look at land use in relation to rivers and streams. Learning the way that water moves through river corridors in both normal and extreme situations is an important step towards minimizing the potential for loss and damage to life and property due to flooding and erosion events.