Flooding has been epidemic in the more mountainous areas, with major floods occurring about once every other decade with great loss of life and property. Such disasters have encouraged local precautions to prevent future problems, such as the Grundy Flood Control and Redevelopment Project, in Grundy, Virginia, a multimillion-dollar effort to protect the town from future flooding. This federally funded project moved an entire town up off of the river bank and, on a site blasted out of a mountainside, replaced its flood-razed shopping district with a new shopping center anchored by Walmart.