When it opened for business in 1925, the old Coney Island Racetrack must have seemed ideally situated sitting on the banks of the Ohio River. After all, patrons could hop a riverboat in downtown Cincinnati and be in the grandstands in just a few minutes. But some 80 years later the track, since renamed River Downs, was showing that there is a downside to being located in a floodplain. FLOODWATERS KEEP SUBGRADE WET & SOFT “The track usually floods

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