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We live just off the confluence of Gales Creek and the Tualatin River. Been here for 30 years. Been through a lot of floods, 1996 and 2007. This rain event just dropped a lot of rain in a short period of time. This is not really much of an event even with the rain coming tonight.
As for some for the flooding, just go ahead and keep paving over permeable surfaces and collect that water in storm drains and try to move it to the drainage areas with out increasing volume and velocity. The 1996 flood and 07 were completely unpredictable since all the computer models have no way to predict how the storm drainage will behave. That was the reason downtown Tualatin flooded so bad. Water in that drainage has to move from the West Hills to the Tualain River to the Willamette. Now how are you going to do that without planned control of flow and velocity ?? Not happening.
Flooding in the lower Tualatin drainage has not even crested from yesterdays event. It takes almost 4 days for the crest at Dilley, which is a false crest since you have multiple creeks flowing in after that and to reach the gauge at Farmington.
There is the usual bunch of moronic idiots who go around road closed signs and stall out their cars, and then the fire guys have to go rescue their azzes. " But, but I though we could get through the water, the road closed sign does not mean us ".
As for some for the flooding, just go ahead and keep paving over permeable surfaces and collect that water in storm drains and try to move it to the drainage areas with out increasing volume and velocity. The 1996 flood and 07 were completely unpredictable since all the computer models have no way to predict how the storm drainage will behave. That was the reason downtown Tualatin flooded so bad. Water in that drainage has to move from the West Hills to the Tualain River to the Willamette. Now how are you going to do that without planned control of flow and velocity ?? Not happening.
Flooding in the lower Tualatin drainage has not even crested from yesterdays event. It takes almost 4 days for the crest at Dilley, which is a false crest since you have multiple creeks flowing in after that and to reach the gauge at Farmington.
There is the usual bunch of moronic idiots who go around road closed signs and stall out their cars, and then the fire guys have to go rescue their azzes. " But, but I though we could get through the water, the road closed sign does not mean us ".