Commentary: With each square foot of land we develop, it feels like we are ignoring lessons from San Antonio's past floods.
Construction equipment sits in Leon Creek floodwaters near U.S. Highway 90 in July 2021. The area is prone to flooding.On an evening in October 1998, a police sergeant pounded on the door of my family’s home. I watched as he issued an urgent request to my father to use our canoe. The policeman explained there had been a disaster in our city, and there were people who needed to be saved.
This was one of my earliest memories and a story I revisit often as my first time witnessing the extent of nature’s fury. The flood killed 31 people and caused about $750 million in damages. It also highlighted the flaws in our city’s stormwater system and served as an aggressive reminder that we can’t ignore nature.
Two City Council members have demonstrated that they, at least, remember the devastation from the floods — the loss of utilities, the loss of property, and the needless human suffering and deaths inflicted by these events.
The committee’s main charge should be protecting people’s lives and homes from raging floodwaters. However, stormwater runoff also affects the quality of our urban rivers and streams., all are too polluted for swimming as a result of bacteria contamination in stormwater runoff. That’s not to mention the mountains of litter that pile up in our local drainages and waterways with each rain.
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