Tag: flooding
Your Views: City hall is playing games with our money
To the editor:
With all the debate about flooding in Rosemont, Del Ray and elsewhere, the city continues to maintain that their stormwater fee will...
Your Views: Don’t bulldoze Taylor Run
To the editor:
The City of Alexandria wants to re-engineer 1,900 feet of the Taylor Run stream channel in Chinquapin Park between T.C. Williams High...
Your Views: City action needed on broken infrastructure
To the editor:
Flooding is not a new problem for Alexandria, as your piece “Out of the Attic: Flooding is an old problem in Alexandria”...
City Council to expedite flood mitigation projects
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
City Council and Department of Transportation and Environmental Services staff engaged in a lengthy conversation about increasing the city’s flood...
City experiences another ‘100-year’ flood
By Missy Schrott | [email protected]
On the afternoon of Sept. 10, flash flooding at a rate as high as 3 inches in 10 minutes overwhelmed...
Your Views: Don’t locate 150 people on a two-home site
To the editor:
Residents cannot be blamed for missing a significant business item at the City Council legislative meeting on Sept. 8. Council approved an...
Our View: Going with the flow will not fix flooding
By now most Alexandria residents have seen the photos: cars with water halfway up the sides, murky floodwater leaving stains and bacteria across swaths...
Your Views: Flooding is a hidden by-product of densification
To the editor:
Mayor Justin Wilson's monthly newsletter’s article on the July 23 flooding seems designed to indirectly respond to your July 30 editorial, “A...
Our View: New year, new decade
2020.
The year we have just entered sounds futuristic and hip. Mathematicians must be overjoyed, numerologists ecstatic.
The last double number year was 1919, right after...
Your Views: Building Metro on wetlands will cause more flooding
To the editor:
Our local government just announced that it has won a great victory by at last obtaining the necessary federal permit to destroy...
