Evansville Observer: Mailbag: Mark sends Westside Pictures--Tuesday , August 7, 2007

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Mailbag: Mark sends Westside Pictures--Tuesday , August 7, 2007

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Anonymous7:13 AM
I am sorry but for a minute I thought I was looking at Lake Leota.
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grumps10:17 AM
One interesting point in these pictures from Mark's vantage point is the water over the berm from the Westfield Meadows green space.

It looked as if the WM pond held hardly any water Tuesday morning, that there was more than the greenspace could clear to the outfalls for the ditch and that the Westfield Meadows water had overwhelmed the berm and was adding to the backup in the Abey system.

Add to that the fact that the wierplate in the box culvert on Porter had failed along the eastern edge and was bypassing far more water than planned to the Westfield Meadows system. It was clear from Saturday's rain that the plate needed to be calibrated to slow the rate of discharge. that would have been fairly simple.

Some time between 6 and 7 AM Tuesday the plate failed and needs to be put back in place or replaced with a higher notch to haold water in the pond longer.

The pictures here and the ones I took from my house show clearly that, contrary to assurances, Westfield Meadows has not taken care of their additional runoff and that, even though the Abey system is working well right now, it is not working alone and cannot handle the overflow from Westfield Meadows and the overflow from the R&K pond at Vision and 6th.

The Weather Service is calling for 3 more inches of rain tonight. I'm not confident in the capacity of the system right now.
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grumps11:39 AM
The other point that needs to be noted is that this landscape is very different on Wednesday morning. The Abey drainage is working.

Without the excess inputs from the south and northwest we wouldn't have seen this flooding on Tuesday or, at least, less flooding.
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