It’s been a dry year in Kansas with very little rainfall, which has kept Bob Powell from needing to deal with a problem his home just south of calfskin creek has had for decades. He is referring to the Halloween flood of 1998. which caused him thousands of dollars of damage. Powell says the situation has improved over the last decade but as of now, his home still sits on a floodplain. “It’s hard to sell the house because of you have to buy flood insurance and people just don’t want to be bothered.” Over time the city of Wichita and Sedgwick county has made improvements to the calfskin creek watershed to try to mitigate flooding issues for homes and roads in it. Now the two are trying to get funding for a new project.
Source: KAKE – News
