To prevent further flooding, these residents are calling for hedges and trees

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To prevent further flooding, these residents are calling for hedges and trees

Scalded by the terrible floods of last winter, a group of inhabitants of the Audomarois marsh (Pas-de-Calais) are campaigning to renature the soils destroyed by intensive agriculture. The goal: to retain water upstream. Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais), report "There is panic fear as soon as it rains", sighs Michel Dewalle, 82 years old. "I'm not afraid, well... I say I'm not afraid, but I'm looking at Vigicrue ten days from now", smiles Jacques Fla…