Letter to The Editor
February 3, 2021
Dear Editor,
The solution to the regular flooding in Cassville is for the city to systematically buy up the property that floods and convert it to parkland. Cassville has been flooding regularly since its founding in the eighteen hundreds. For example here is an article from The National Weather Service Natural Hazard Risk Assessment Information For Barry County Missouri: “On June 16th, 2000, the city of Cassville received widespread severe flooding along Flat Creek. Fifty to sixty people along the creek were forced to evacuate from two mobile home parks, a motel, and 10 houses. During the evacuation, some people were wading in water that was chest high”. Cassville will flood regularly in the future despite what anyone thinks. If there was no property to flood except parkland families and businesses would not have to be disrupted every time it did flood.
Ron Yunk
Cassville
Dear Editor,
The solution to the regular flooding in Cassville is for the city to systematically buy up the property that floods and convert it to parkland. Cassville has been flooding regularly since its founding in the eighteen hundreds. For example here is an article from The National Weather Service Natural Hazard Risk Assessment Information For Barry County Missouri: “On June 16th, 2000, the city of Cassville received widespread severe flooding along Flat Creek. Fifty to sixty people along the creek were forced to evacuate from two mobile home parks, a motel, and 10 houses. During the evacuation, some people were wading in water that was chest high”. Cassville will flood regularly in the future despite what anyone thinks. If there was no property to flood except parkland families and businesses would not have to be disrupted every time it did flood.
Ron Yunk
Cassville