The day after the VDT ran
Lowndes County’s admission that the sewer line break was theirs, not Valdosta’s,
did the VDT start a series of financial investigation
like they did about Valdosta’s water issues?
Nope, they ran a piece about how much weather costs the county,
with no recognition of watershed-wide issues,
nor of any need for the county to participate in proactively
dealing with them, to reduce costs, for better quality of life,
to attract the kinds of businesses we claim we want.
Nope, none of that.
Jason Schaefer wrote for the VDT 27 April 2013,
What natural events cost Lowndes taxpayers,
In the Deep South, near a river plain where floodwaters rise and ebb
from season to season and wetlands that distinguish the region from
anywhere else in the nation, flooding makes a significant portion of
the concern for Lowndes County emergency management.
OK, that’s close to getting at some of the basic issues.
We’re all in the same watershed, and we need to act like it
instead of every developer and every local government
clearcutting and paving as if water didn’t run downhill.
Does the story talk about that?
After all, the county chairman attended the
11 April 2013 watershed-wide flooding meeting
that led to the
city of Valdosta’s likely participation in flodoplain planning.
Nope; according to the VDT,
everybody around here seems to be hapless victims of weather: