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Howard and Wanda Peterson had a well-watered garden behind their home at 1325 S. Ellis Ave. in May 1973.
Town Branch drains the southwest portion of the University of Arkansas campus surrounding Walton Arena and Razorback Stadium and Markham Hill. Potential flood levels increase as further development occurs in the watershed.
Photos courtesy
of Wanda Peterson (nee Moody)
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Your point in posting these 34-year-old pictures is pretty obvious: The city should not allow ANY new paving in that watershed. Aspen Ridge ought to have been forbidden. You had those photos on line a couple of years before it was approved and the situation was ignored.
If these guys want to build a few buildings up near Sixth Street, fine. But require them to dig out the fill dirt in the lowest parts and let the creek overflow a bit as it has done many times.
Coody should be lobbying the council to deny this project if he wants to be respected as an advocate of sustainability.
You should have shown him your Web site on Aspen Ridge before it was passed four years ago. Surely he would have vetoed the project if you had just shown him your Web site. You had all the evidence online in 2004 to defeat Aspen Ridge and now the new Hill Place project. Why is it even being considered?
Are we looking at the same set of pictures? That creek is BARELY out of its banks, and only on one side of the creek. Also, it strikes me that there are very few trees in the picture, since the area was agricultural back then. Large swaths of agricultural land produce more runoff than small pockets of urban development; no trees=no transpiration. Also, I've yet to see a farmer build a detention pond. If this is the worst flooding photo you can produce, it looks like we'll all be just fine with the Aspen Ridge development built out.
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