Residents cope with floods
In CS it's ‘Life in the Flood Plain'
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1980
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■When the storms roll in and gray clouds break
with rain, some College Station residents count
on wading through their yards. Residents near
lower end of Holleman Street close to Well-
m Road contend with standing water and
losquitoes whenever there’s a heavy downpour.
rcountyjJL Robbie Clark, 313 Holleman, says she has lived
;ally g 0o in the “same spot since 1944” and the drainage has
always been bad.
'centoftlj a heavy rain, Clark said, “We don’t have
Tceivehiii|i 10U 8h drainage. Sometimes when we get out of
that Rep car water comes up to my ankles.”
inderdogs ft bridge down there (on Holleman next to
)arty is S ( r Ij erve y) overflows. You can’t walk over that,”
11 the rat5 ark sai( h
ery winal* says mosquitoes are also a problem when it
%ins.
ly workj Although water doesn’t come inside her house
ipaign. ° rstand * n her yard, Clark says it takes about a half
1 one t0 drain -
)twonjjJ Clark sa * d R^'og the street would solve the
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I A few doors down from Clark live George and
Mary Washington at 203 Holleman. Their house
lbs in a lower area than Clark’s.
Mr. Washington says, “It takes a couple of days
ue arej anb n '8hts” of hard rain to cause water problems.
pver of J "1 can 1 8° to m y truck with no rubber boots, it
gets so bad,” he added.
IS Den Mrs. Washington says water stands in their
les Brt r ’ ^ ut * n ^he back here it stands about a week
— in this little patch,” she commented.
riOre pn Both said mosquitoes are a bad problem after a
igafalil 1 " 1 rain -
1 ‘The best way to solve it (drainage) is to clean
out that ditch (the pipe beneath the bridge near
pervey Street),” Mr. Washington said.
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Paul Joseph White, 1006B Welsh Street, lives a
few blocks east from Clark.
“When it gets wet there are mosquito prob
lems” and a lot of wet ground, White says.
“I think my situation is unique, because I think
it’s more of a problem of drainage,” he said.
White said the ground around his house is con
tinually soft and damp.
“When it rains, you can just see the tips of the
blades of grass,” he says.
White says the solution to improving his soggy
surroundings is to “improve drainage on the
road”.
The area where these people live is in a natural
rain runoff, the Bee Creek tributary. On a 20-year
flood plain projection map which was completed
in July for the City of College Station, the west
end of Holleman is in a flood plain.
Mark Lewis Smith, assistant to the College
Station city engineer, says there’s nothing the city
can do about drainage on private property.
“They should come here and check first (before
buying a house),” Smith said.
He said the city has flood plain maps which are
available to the public. Smith pointed out “Our
maps show approximate (flood plain) locations.”
Although there are several areas of town that
were built before a flood plain study was ever
done, Smith says now “what the city requires is
they have to build the structure one foot above
the 100-year flood plain.”
As far as drainage on streets is concerned,
Smith says the city considers many different fac
tors when repairing streets. A factor he cited
would be if a fire truck could get on and off a street
safely.
Smith did say the city will be putting in a
drainage easement on a current project at Detroit
and Nevada streets (in the neighborhood on Hol
leman). But he said this wouldn’t include the area
on Holleman near Hervey.
The project, which is under Community De
velopment, is scheduled to start on the thirteenth
of this month, Smith said.
Jane Kee, College Station Community De
velopment Planner, says the area along the west
end of Hollan is a target area in the Community
Development Block Grant.
Kee says the grant money provides for “curb
and gutter, base and top (for street pavement) and
any necessary drainage facilities that we’ll have to
do.”
“We’ve already paved four streets in that
neighborhood. Next year we ll pave two streets.
This year we ll pave one, ” she said.
She added that the city is in the process of
acquiring right of way on Holleman in order to
widen it.
An area qualifies for the federal block grant if 80
percent of the families in the area are median
income, Kee explained. “The median income is
based on a four person family,” she said, making
$13,300 annually. She said $13,300 is the College
Station median income figure.
There are four target areas in College Station,
Kee said, including the Holleman area.
She says “if we need to acquire easements (in
the target area) we can do that.”
“Between Southwest Parkway and Nevada, the
city has a big 20 foot drainage easement ... we’re
going to use that (to tie into),” Kee explained.
Meanwhile, when it rains hard, folks like
George Washington will have to put up with extra
water and mosquitoes. Washington joked, “I was
figuring on getting a little boat.”
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