Clarksville man raises questions about accident site, flood mitigation

ALLISON — Questions from a Clarksville resident led to lively discussion at Tuesday morning’s Butler County Board of Supervisors meeting. Jim Norton approached the supervisors with questions about why a bridge east of Clarksville where a fatal automobile accident recently occurred cannot be removed and also about why the bike path through Clarksville cannot be lowered to reduce flooding problems in the city.
Norton said water backs up at the bike trail, which is located on an abandoned railroad right of way, causing water to back up through the city.
“Why couldn’t that bike trail be started at both ends and lowered six or eight feet real nice and put back real nice at not a real lot of expense, probably covered by the state or the Corps of Engineers … I don’t know who,” he said. “It’s a real simple thing … and you could get an awful lot of volume of water taken care of which comes running across that whole thing west of Clarksville on C-33.”
County Conservation Director Mike Miner did not argue with Norton’s point that lowering the bike trail would help mitigate the flooding issue. At this point, however, he said the reason more steps to mitigate the issue have not been taken, is a simple matter of money.
Read the full article in the November 17 edition of the papers.