 | His expertise shines through as he explained the latest stormwater chaos we’ve been through. The ‘rain event’ of Aug 20-21 was a 1-in-a-thousand-year event for us – meaning it had less than .1% chance of happening. But it did. His charts and graphs showed the tremendous amount of water that fell on the west side (with just 3-4 inches on the isthmus). 6.68” of rain would be a once-a-century amount in a 24-hour period; in some spots, we had 10.56” in 12 hours. Almost all the rain fell into the Pheasant Branch Creek Watershed and then flowed into the lakes, very gradually. Lakeside homeowners suffered not from rain, but from the lake levels rising. |
Next Week’s Speaker: Jessie Charles: Bringing Their Stones Home – Restoring Gravestones to the Old Dane County Asylum and Poor Farm | |