Longtime activist and Vollintine-Evergreen resident Mary Wilder calls her neighborhood “the kink in the hose.”
“We get a lot of flooding. [Lick Creek] makes a 90 degree angle at Auburndale and the water comes flying through there,” she says. “Back in August, we had trucks and cars on the street and the water was up to their steering wheels.”
“It was a phenomenal amount of rain, I’ll give you that, but you’re supposed to plan for that.”
To mitigate Midtown’s storm water problem, the city of Memphis is considering installing a detention basin … in the middle of Overton Park’s greensward.
And that has eyebrows raised with community groups and involved parties.
To read more, visit Mary Cashiola’s In the Bluff blog.