Showing posts with label flooding and drainage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flooding and drainage. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

First I Look at the Purse.

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I don't care if you got yourself a wrap all I want is your pretty green cash Bought me a suit, bought me a car Want me to look like...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Under threat: "Why Venice Is Disappearing."

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Ten million tree trunks, or in short, what's underneath most of the buildings in the city of Venice. First a short and very informa...
Saturday, June 22, 2019

New Orleans, the Mississippi River and lots and lots of water.

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Photo credit. By the way, it's raining again. Hell Is High Water: When will the Mississippi River come for New Orleans?  by Henry ...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Moooving Forward, Part Two: Flood protection, Gahan's ignorance of nepotism and why "great experiences" always cost SOMETHING.

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Previously: Moooving Forward, Part One: But if flood protection requires "improvement" now, was it inadequate before, and why ...

Moooving Forward, Part One: But if flood protection requires "improvement" now, was it inadequate before, and why did "improvement" take eight whole years?

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Having surveyed Gahan's pre-election flood protection boasts, a regular reader submitted this comment. So if the Ohio River floods th...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Wheel of Sodden at the Saturation Army -- or another heavy rain, another plan to alleviate self-inflicted stormwater tsunamis.

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Extra, extra -- read all about it. The best cure of all would have been pre-emptive; no clearcutting, no Summit Springs. But in America...
Monday, September 24, 2018

River Run Family Waterpark can't slow down.

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Technically, it's acceptable to swing on a 3 and 0 count if the pitcher grooves a fastball with no mustard.
Friday, September 14, 2018

Holy cow, Joe Sixpack! It turns out your own two eyes were right about Summit Springs stormwater runoff.

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As to my long-term point about the theory and practice of journalism, there's this (story link below). Surveyor David Ruckman and ...
Wednesday, March 07, 2018

SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: Touts, displacements and why our levy matters.

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From flood to mud in less than a week. WDRB's staffer may or may not have chosen the word "tout" on purpose, but I'm...
Friday, February 23, 2018

Coffee break's over, so let's begin by commending Team Gahan for modernizing the city's pumping plants.

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"As often as I criticize the current administration, when the rains come like this I do remember that Mayor Gahan had the flood pump...
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Saturday, July 29, 2017

All hail New Gahanian crosswalk puddle-a-bility: Brand new asphalt, concrete and ramps, and the same old non-drainage problem.

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And the road goes on forever ... ASK THE BORED: Mayor Jeff M. Gahan presents BOW presenting exciting new vistas in sidewalk blockag...
Saturday, May 20, 2017

THE BEER BEAT: Starlight Distribution's entire inventory was destroyed by Friday's flooding.

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Let's be perfectly clear: It's far better to lose beer than people. At the same time, the loss of fine beer hits me much harder...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

The answer to persistent stormwater runoff issues? Clear-cutting, of course.

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Because a "green" way is all about unimpeded vistas? Rorschach test? Fb reader says, "It's an homage to the mayor...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Down-low forestry: "Plant some trees to save a town from flooding? Not a bad idea."

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I'll just leave this here. On occasion, when one of us criticizes another round of downtown chop-down forestry, we're assured t...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

NA: It's where YOU should be ... without any shade, so best head to the water park..

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Elsewhere in Come Lumberjack City, THIS is the water park -- a pop-up water park, seeing as concepts like this are really hip at the mome...
Friday, August 21, 2015

Council meeting recap 2: Dear Jeff.

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Dear Jeff, Missed you again at the council meeting Thursday. Members of the public came to talk to the council about how the storm w...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

Asphalt or jungle: A closer look at those storm drains at 5th & Elm.

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Earlier this afternoon, we took a look at the new pavement at 5th and Elm. Who knew the ADA mandates warning ramps for bocce ball crossing...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Hold the Roundup, says former stormwater board chairman.

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After this morning, it should be as high as a clergyman's eye. NAC's article here ... The native habitat of pokeweed, in stor...
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Saturday, July 11, 2015

The native habitat of pokeweed, in storm drains, by one-way streets, but hey -- let's go swimming.

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A tree grows from the storm water grate. Move along; nothing to see here. After all, it's New Albany. I decided to have some Fb ...
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Wednesday, July 01, 2015

NAC Editorial Board: Stop signs as manhole covers makes so much sense that it needs to become official city policy.

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Photo credit: WDRB As we await the mayor's official comment on the matter, which is slated to arrive in Navajo code after the elect...
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