The librarian at my school is a lovely woman who is a little quirkey, and loves to read more than anything else in the whole world. She is a fantatasic librarian, it is like she was destined to do it. Well she has an office in the library and can actually keep a coffee pot in there, unlike the rest of us. So she makes coffee everyday and we all contribute to the filters, coffee and “creamer”. I was in there getting coffee the other day and she told me a story about the watershed area that helped to clear up the mystery. I received a pamplet from the water authority explaining where flood prone regions are (the pamplet was about water impurities and basically an overview of what they do and how our water is doing). I noticed that one region was along this pretty paltry little creek that runs along a double lane road near the watershed area. It said that in 1974 it flooded the whole street because it rained so much over a two day period in July. Somehow the librarian and I were discussing it and it turns out that she remembers wading, thigh high, in the regular floods along Meadowbrook, and even remembers people canoeing down the street. She said that it doesn’t do that anymore and that the creek bed is so lame because of the new watershed area that is designed to allow the flooding to collect in that area which has a deep basin, so that the houses along Meadowbrook won’t flood.Very interesting.
