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A bridge with breathtaking views of the Colorado River served as a route for automobiles and trucks for 66 years. The original Navajo Bridge was opened in 1929, replacing a ferry that crossed the river. In 1995, the bridge was restricted to pedestrian use due to the opening of a new, stronger bridge for vehicles. The bridges are side by side and look very similar. They are located in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Arizona; a Navajo Bridge Interpretive Center is there as well.

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This would allow for better managing of the water flow SALE PENDING 3 bed, 1.5 bath Huge 4-6 car garage, Model sharp! into the major rivers such as the Mississippi. new carpeting 2 bed, 2 bath throughout, condo, updated, I would suspect that everyone here in Eastern newer furnace, 3 seasons porch, ac, roof, Iowa know the heartaches and financial costs endured new appliances, driveway, NOT a vaulted flood property. by the major flooding that is currently going on along e th the Mississippi river in Tennessee and Louisiana. As LC. I read an article which said that the symptoms of I understand it, if the politicians would not have set stress are impulse buying, eating too much and minimum water levels for the Army Corps of Engineers Carpet • Vinyl • Ceramic to maintain, they would have constructed several more driving too fast. Hardwood water reservoirs along other rivers such as the Cedar Are they kidding? River. That's what I call a perfect day. A properly maintained water reservoir on the Cedar River would have prevented the catastrophic flood we experienced here in Linn County. Now we as taxpayers will be paying a high price too fix and repair the flooded areas along the Mississippi which may have been prevented had the Army Corps of Engineers installed many of the water reservoirs that they Steven Vogt originally had planned on through the 1938 flood act congress passed. Now with the news covering the flooding in Memphis, they have reported that this years flood is almost as 3909 Center Point Rd NE high as the devastating record flood of 1937. Now I seem to know what triggered Congress to pass the 1938 flood act. Cedar Rapids Memphis also had similar flood levels in 1927 and 1997 which means they are not experiencing flooding that will repeat itself again unless something is done. I have received many comments that we should let the low lying flood plains flood as they were intended to flood. Of course I'm not quite sold on that idea, especially when people have now established towns and large communities in these so called flood plains. In fact some have suggested that the lower downtown part of Cedar Rapids is in a flood plain and should be left to flood. I think most of those that may feel that way are discourage by the lack of support for the west side of the river to prevent flooding. Personally I have not met anyone who feels either side should flood again. That means we as a community and as a nation need to come up with a very comprehensive plan to protect everyone from mother natures ability to bless us with so much water that we cannot keep what we want dry. I would like those folks who support flood walls to ponder for a moment to consider if flood walls would protect anywhere beyond the land that they will tower above. If you were to consider the great expense to erect flood walls, will others still pay the high price of flooding down stream? And further more, how certain can we be that what the flood walls are designed to protect will actually protect those areas. Consider this fact, no matter how high or how long the immigration boarder wall is along the U.S. and Mexican boarder is built, we will always have illegal immigration unless something else is done. Wow, how did I get onto that hot topic. I have heard lots of complaints about farmers tilling their fields has impacted the quick water flow into the streams and rivers that flow over their banks. Of course I have heard many good points as to why farmers tile their fields. Of course I have heard many reasons why some areas of a farmers field should not be tiled. This is another very hot topic and there is not enough room here to properly defend both sides of this argument so I will stop here. I have now heard that since the sales tax vote was defeated in the Metro Block of Cedar Rapids, Marion and Hiawatha, there will be no more consideration at the state level until next year for funding any flood protection projects. That means now is the time for everyone to hammer out another plan that the entire community can accept so that we can move forward when the funding opportunity arises again. Now with all that said and my comment that we need to act now, who are we to act now. I know I'm no scholar on this subject, heck I'm lucky I don't need to write all the articles in this great paper, otherwise it would not be so great. I also question why even our local politicians are so heavily involved in these major decisions as to what should be done. I know many of them are more educated and experienced in many areas than I am, however are they experts in flood management. Anytime we try to alter the effects of the weather, we chance the possibility of drastically compromising many other issues that were never properly considered. Kind a like why are they spending so much time and money enlarging the intersection of First Ave. and Collins Road? Oops, another hot topic. Oh what the heck. What happened to the idea of putting in a cloverleaf interchange there to eliminate the traffic light and ease the congestion of traffic? My thought on this would be to level the First Ave. grade between the area of Home Depot and Carlos O'Kelly's so that Collins Road could bridge over the top without any additional height being needed. Oh well, too late now for that idea. Back to the decision makers, we really need to request that politicians allow the Army Corps of Engineers to properly plan a nation wide flood plan as they originally set out to do in 1938 without any political interference. They should also be working in conjunction with the U. S. Geological Survey to help ensure any consequences of their actions are not harming our future. Here is what they have on their web site about the USGS: The USGS is a science organization that provides impartial information on the health of our ecosystems and environment, the natural hazards that threaten us, the natural resources we rely on, the impacts of climate and land-use change, and the core science systems that help us provide timely, relevant, and useable information. Taken from: www.usgs.gov Now I would highly suspect that the people working at the USGS and the Army Corps of Engineers really know their stuff. They might not know all the ins and outs of a council meeting, but I would sure hope they know much more than I do and all our city officials when it comes to flood protection and the effects of what may result from any man made flood protection. Now since I'm confronted with multiple deadlines every week and don't have time to proof a lot of my own content as its obvious by some of my grammar and misspelling, I have not been to any of the flood meetings. I have watched many of the televised ones and surf the web for a lot of information that I rely on. So maybe these agencies and other government agencies are helping with decisions, but I have not seen any of them on TV. The last one I watched, Mayor Ron Corbett had very good arguments why we need to do something and that we need to do it now and that is why is was so important to get behind him and vote yes to the sales tax extension. On the other hand the others seem to have very good arguments why we should vote no to the tax extension as they did not feel the Mayor has a proper plan. Now neither side had any expert witnesses from anywhere that I could tell as a juror that I should vote as they requested. Note as I called myself a juror and not judge as to be a judge you need to be an attorney first. I will leave the attorney jokes for the ﬁller spaces within the paper. Bottom line, there are many things that need to be fixed and politicians are the ones that can effect how they are accomplished. We have many problems and so few answers that everyone will agree on that often times compromise leads to disaster. What we do need is not to compromise regarding how to protect the communities along our waterways, but real solutions that everyone can feel good about because its the right way to do it. If anyone has comments, facts or other information they would like to share with me I would gladly appreciate it. I promise I will not quote you unless you request it. In fact, I will probably not continue writing about this subject as I feel I have wrote enough.

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