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City of Modesto
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City of Modesto
Contributed by Marge Leopold
Friday, 22 October 2004
In 1997 I lived on the corner of Rue De Yoe and N. Morton Blvd behind the old Scenic hospital. I watched as the water rose in Moose Park, came across the road and headed for my front yard. We evacuated but the water never got to the front door, even though the neighbors across the street were flooded and parts of the neighborhood were submerged under 10 feet of water.
I bring this up only because Councilman Jackman wants to bulldoze the Robertson road neighborhood because it flooded, at the very least not let residents rebuild. I have never heard him say that the Dry Creek area should be bulldozed or that the residents should not be allowed to rebuild. All I can possibly see as an answer is that money talks. Many of the homes flooded in the Dry creek area are owned by doctors and lawyers, not like the low-income residents of the Robertson Road area.
When I bought my house in the Rob Rd. area I was told that I would have to purchase flood insurance even though my house had never flooded. I was told that the “Big” flood of 1997 was an eighty year flood and the new flood plain in which my house sits is for a one hundred year flood level.
I have been told by my neighbors that when the new Don Pedro dam was built, the neighborhood was assured that it would never flood again. It may never be proven, but in the neighborhood as in most of Modesto it is believed that it was human error that caused the flood.
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