Please pardon my ignorance, but is the historic area of St. Charles at risk. From what I recall it was right on the river?
Correct, but Historic St Charles is just that-—Historic. It was the first State Capitol and a busy place back at it’s inception. Why is it located as close as it is? Back then, the river was the source for transportating goods and services, commerce, transportation for family exploring the country and traveling, among a host of other things. KC is the same way and St. Louis. Since the development of the historic towns and thousands of others located near rivers, we’ve come a long way in technology and geology and a understanding (not control)of what a river is capable of and does on a regular basis. Unfortunatley, greed and arrogance supersceded and you had a developer one morning wake up and decide that New Town was a good idea. They used man’s ability to predict what Mother Nature will do and are getting spanked and will continue to get spanked as long as they don’t change. There are reasons (mostly common sense) that neighborhoods are not built on the thousands of acres of rich, silty, flat, farm lands next to rivers. The levy busted a couple miles up stream, it could have, and still might bust closer this or next time. The bottom line is this....while we (taxpayers) are trying to get people out of the flood plain spending millions of dollars in buyouts—you’ve got a guy making millions putting them right back in there! Who is eventually going to buy these people out? Should they be bought out? Maybe the developer making all this money should set up a fund for buyouts? A few guys making decisions for the rest of us to suffer while they stuff money deeper and deeper in there pockets smiling and shaking hands at the Country Club slapping their budies on the back planning their next vacation to the Carribean. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous....we might want to include a couple my decriptions along with those!!!
“is the historic area of St. Charles at risk?”
I didn’t get down to the riverfront last night, but from Second and Adams I didn’t see any signs of flooding. The Missouri isn’t as high there as it has been in the past.
I just talked to a guy I work with who lives in New Town. He said the soccer fields are flooded, but there is no flooding at all where he lives or the on the road to his home.