And that's actually the water that caused all the problem this time. Well, it probably was. Like the Sears Building. They built right over the culverts for the Muddy River, which disappears from there. So you get all these land and air rights above where you have eliminated the tributary, things like parking lots, nine-story buildings.
Somebody makes a lot of money.
And that, at the time of structure, is what people are interested in, not the potential for flooding at some future date. Well, the answer to that is, some people have learned a lesson. Wentworth Institute, Symphony Hall, the Christian Science Center, the Museum of Fine Arts, residents of Back Bay-all those people who had hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage done learned a lesson. They will probably be advocates for appropriate flood control. But the problem is, that development is a short-term interest.