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Richard Gonzales Reports That Aside From Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars

in damage, this winter's floods out west have restarted the debate between environmentalists and the construction industry. To accommodate a population boom in California, people are building houses everywhere...in many places they shouldn't be...on fault lines, in flood plains and on hill sides.

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