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bottomland

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bottomland

Lowlands located in a valley or other low area near rivers,streams,or bodies of water prone to flooding.Bottomland was especially prized by farmers at one time because of the constant deposit of nutrient-rich soils.



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Overweight children would not be the first thing a visitor to Grafton, West Virginia, would think of when seeing the small farms that cling to steep hillsides and cultivate the bottomland along the Tygart River as one drives into town.
The landscape is characterized by bottomland and upland forests, wetlands, open water and old pastures.
And like Katrina, it is those on the bottomland below the sea-level of poverty who are most displaced.
 
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