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I love how farming crops or livestock is looked at in a negative light these days to people outside of the midwest. Even some radicals in this state would clame this.

Did farmers till up the wetlands?? Yeah, but they were allowed to, but you also see more drainage ditches to help offset that. I have seen more and more drainage ditches being built to help direct water away. Which all they probably do is quicken the process of the water getting to the river.

I think cities growing have more to do then agriculture. More big cement parking lots also mean less drainage. I thought I read a couple years back about Ankeny having drainage issues due to their rapid growth and increased runoff... Sounds like agriculture is the root of all evil.