Debris on 11th St. bridge after early morning rain

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One person on the tour of Aspen Ridge on Friday seemed to doubt that the area floods. Here is the evidence after the fact Saturday morning. Debris pushed onto the bridge from north to south (right to left) remains after the rain had been over for an hour or so and the photographer finally showed up. Sometime before sunrise, a photo could have been made of the water flowing over the bridge downstream from Aspen Ridge.

Don Hoodenpyle, who owns the property to the right, which floods before the water gets high enough to flow OVER the bridge, explained how the addition of a large sewer line UNDER the bridge has decreased the amount of flow necessary to cause water to flow over the bridge. That new sewer was built to accommodate the so-called phase II of Aspen Ridge.