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Tennessee Officials Working To Mitigate Repeated Flooding
Lebanon Democrat, The (TN)
Apr. 6 After another round of devastating floods ravaged Lebanon s downtown square, it refloated a question that gets asked a lot, why does this keep happening?
Lebanon s Commissioner of Public Works Jeff Baines said that after the floods in 2010, the city entered discussions with the Army Corps of Engineers on possible alternatives to mitigate flooding on Sinking Creek.
Sinking Creek is the waterway that runs underneath the square. Its watershed begins about 4 miles south of the square and runs south to north through the city.
According to Baines, after the Corps of Engineers conducted a 5-year analysis of the area, it recommended the city create a detention structure at Stumpy Lane. This proposal was presented to the City Council last summer.