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City Council interviews flood control engineers
In a special 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 21, session, the El Dorado Springs City Council interviewed three engineering firms on their proposed approach to the downtown flooding issue.

Members present were Mayor Brad True, Mayor Pro Tem Jerry Baldwin and Council Members Randy Bland and Gene Floyd.
Council Member Jerry Friar was absent. Personnel present were Bruce Rogers, City Manager and Lisa Janes, City Clerk/Collector/Assessor.

Amec Earth & Environmental, Inc. was the first firm to interview. They had a power point presentation along with a matching handout. Two members from the firm presented their qualifications for the project.

When asked why all of a sudden the City has had two major flooding events in two years they responded it mostly has to do with more asphalt and less places for the water to go. They would be looking at one or more detention ponds, relief inlets downtown and channel improvements. Timetable would be 8-12 weeks.

Floyd received a phone call and left the meeting at this time.

Olsson Associates were the second firm to interview. Three members of the firm were present. Eric Dove stated the 6 to 6 and 1/2 inch rainfall received would fall under a one in 500 year event. This information can be gathered from the National Weather Service website.

Option one for Olsson would be detention and to use City crews. Detention is usually the best option for the money. Grant options and permits were covered.

Other areas of the project to be looked at would be to use the alley as a water escape and more inlets. The gun shop is acting as a dam right now; the ground would need to be reworked so that the water would move away from the building.

The detention pond area, if able to work out with the school, could be a multi-functional area so that the school would get good use of the property.

Olsson would probably look at a 100 year design. Timetable would be August-December (Notice to Proceed through Beginning of Construction).

Great River Associates were the final interview. Two members of the firm presented their qualifications and stated they would concentrate on the short-term and long-term design. An area they felt needed improvement is the inlet conditions, more water can go in with a larger opening at the inlet. When asked, they covered permits and grants. Timetable would be five months to complete through the design phase.

All three firms discussed the possibility of a detention pond on school property. Also, all three firms confirmed they did not feel the water was backed up in the tunnel to St. James St. during the most recent flood event of May 2010.

Once the interviews concluded, all remaining Council members agreed to the following order. The best presentation was Olsson, second would be Great River and 3rd Amec. After a brief discussion, it was decided to hold off a decision until the next meeting when other members would be present. Bland stated he would not be present at the next meeting in two weeks, but Rogers, Baldwin and True could let the others know his thoughts and feelings.
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Rock Wall
I planned to work on my lawnmower Saturday morning, the part I like least about mowing which I don’t like anyway because the results are so temporary.

I got up really early to beat the heat and all the time I was getting ready for the day, I just felt absolutely awful like there was pending doom.

It was still pretty early when I went up to borrow a wrench from Tom and because I couldn’t find it, Margaret and I called him.
That’s when he told me about Cousin Julie Hurshman’s fatal wreck.

I don’t know for sure if the heaviness was because of Julie, but it has not come back. I got the lawnmower fixed and part of the yard mowed by late afternoon.

We went to the family night Monday and to the funeral on Tuesday. It was really hard seeing her children, her parents, grandma and other family struggling to deal with such a tragic loss.

I’ll just tell you what I told her parents, Charles and Carol Boultinghouse, Monday evening, “I don’t know what to say.”

-It kind of seems like summer is almost over when the Picnic is past. Once the Aug. 3 election is over, things may really slow down. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, is it?

-We got some surprise rain’– an inch and a half Saturday night and again Monday afternoon. So that’s why the yard is still growing when it is normally in suspended animation.

-What do you think about three state record fish in the month of July? Three surprised anglers, I’d say, but they had to be ready or the report would have been, “The big one got away.” I still remember two huge bass about 500 miles and a few years apart that threw the hook and something big in the Industrial Canal out of New Orleans that I never even turned.

-Kimball is about to get a new kitty. In fact, it will be the first time in our nearly 35 years of hissing and spatting that she has had a kitten. We went to see the breeder Friday and she picked it out. Now we have to wait for the six-week-old ball of fur to grow up a little, get weaned, get on kitten food, get its shots.

Friday when we met the little shaded silver kitten we named Shale, she was still madder than a wet hen as she was being dried off from her first bath.

Kimball is the one who occasionally tries to drown our cats, as far as they are concerned.

KL
 
sports
Fishing Report

Cat fish biting in river and lake



Taberville Report
by Linda McCallister
Dain’s Fish Farm


They are catching white cats on rod and reel baited with nightcrawlers and shad.
The river has come up some.

ElDo Report
by Ruth Foreman
R&R Sporting & Tackle


They are catching fish – blue cats, flatheads and crappie.

The flatheads and blues are biting on the river on worms, shad and frogs on rod and reel, mostly.

We went yesterday to Four Rivers and three or four of us caught seven or eight in the eight or nine pound range. The big one got away.

We caught about 14 keeper crappie up at Schell the other night by the spillway. Most of them were so little we had to turn them loose. It was fun catching them. They hit late on minnows and jigs.

Caplinger Report
by Goldie
Riverside Bait & Canoe


They ran the water last Thursday then shut it off. Nothing is happening, no fish.

They are working on Stockton Dam and have divers in the water.

Lake Stockton Report
by Kelsay Trower
Stockton State Park Marina


They are catching a few channel cats at night in the 7 to 15 lb. range. They are hitting stink bait, shiners and nightcrawlers back up in the creeks on the drop offs.

White bass are on the points in the flat areas in 20-25 ft. of water hitting slab spoons, jigs and crankbaits.
 


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