Congressman Has a Good Idea; Bureaucrats Want Difficult, Expensive Solution

Congressman Has a Good Idea; Bureaucrats Want Difficult, Expensive Solution

The Metro Council will soon begin discussing a $100 million flood wall to protect downtown Nashville from rising water.

But what about the wider area full of homes and neighborhoods? How about using something already there to hold extraordinary runoff from creeks and streams?

U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Nashville, says he’s got a cheap and effective way to reroute devastating flood water. He got the idea on one of his many flights from Middle Tennessee to Washington, D.C.

“I just thought of it riding in the airplane and looking down at the ground and saying, wonder if we could use that hole for something,” Cooper said.

It seems several of the area’s rock quarries, deep holes in the ground, are close to the most flood-prone, free-flowing streams in or near Nashville.

Cooper’s idea is to build (continue reading)

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