Trinity River Vision Cowtown Wavepark

The Trinity River Vision and its "Authority" claim the reason for the Vision is flood control. 

We can't find anyone "in the know" that can answer the question, what flooding problems will be corrected with this project?

We can however, find many examples of how the Trinity River Vision Authority plans to charge you in addition to the BILLION dollars you are already paying for the Trinity River Vision.

Just when we think Detective Durango can't top himself, he does.  Don't miss the boat, you'll need it to get out of here when the water begins to rise.

This just in...

From the Undercover Reporter, Detective Durango. 

Lots of happenings going on YOUR money and water.  Great pictures of the Trinity River Vision and the Tarrant Regional Water District signage and mess.  Good thing a trail system will correct all our flooding issues...oh, wait - it won't fix any. 

WHO approved them taking a billion of your dollars?  Did YOU? 
Some of your "leaders" will tell you the money for the Trinity River Vision is in the bank, rest assured they mean YOUR bank. 

Don't miss this special report.  Or this one.  YOU can't afford to.

Trinity River Tubing Update

Thanks to Durango for reporting on the latest Trinity River development.   One of our local news stations should hire him.

Check it out here.  YOU have to see it to believe it.

"A very big, very noisy whirlpool forms when the Trinity River runs low at this location. This impoundment of the Trinity River is used as a boating location, with a boat launch tethered on the north side of the dam."

"Recently the Trinity River Vision, in conspiracy with the Tarrant Regional Water District, has been leading people to believe that it is safe and sane to go inner tubing, and swimming, in the Trinity River."

To the point

Good Letter to the Editor in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.  Short and to the point.

It would be interesting to have an actuary study of how many thousands of residents use the city golf courses and how many thousands of those same people will use the Trinity River project, especially older and retired residents.

-- G.J. Anthony, Fort Worth

Conserving Water in Fort Worth?

Last week we asked if there was a reporter in the county.

Durango continues to answer the call.  Don't miss it!

Catching up in Fort Worth

Or not.

Over the past couple of days the Fort Worth Star-Telegram has started sharing part of the stories that the FW Weekly put out last week.  The Fort Worth Ethics Committee fiasco and the latest Housing Department questions concerning Councilman Danny Scarth's son. 

WHY would they not tell all of the info?  What happened to reporting?  Oh, we forgot, it's not about the truth, it's just business.

Read about how the Ethics Committee went ahead with their meeting even though there were not enough members present.  Keep in mind, the firing and hiring of the Ethics Committee was not done by the laws of the Charter either.  Think there isn't an ethics problem in Fort Worth?  Think again.  It's the Fort Worth Way.  Those of you non-Texans reading this - send help.  Hurry.

More Arlington Flood Information

From THE PEOPLE in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.  Good questions.  Any politicians want to answer?  City Staff?  Anyone??

Arlington flooding

Having family that has been flooded out of their home three times, rebuilt twice and now faces the onerous permit issue created by the city of Arlington, they are in financial limbo. The federal flood insurance only pays to repair the home from flood damage. It doesn't pay unless you rebuild. Further, it doesn't pay to raise it two feet above the mean 100-year flood elevation.

A simple solution would be to pay insurance proceeds directly to homeowners with the proviso that the home be removed and the land deeded to the city. Insurance proceeds from contents and flood insurance policies would put money in people's pockets and allow them to move elsewhere.

The amount of money being doled out by the federally backed flood insurance program grows with every flood. It seems prudent to make one final payout and be done with it.

Here's my two cents' worth after living in Arlington since 1954:

There are about nine weather stations in south Arlington providing accurate reports of rainfall every hour. They reported about 1 inch rain Sept. 7. At 9:30 a.m. Sept. 8, the rain increased rapidly to 2.5 to 3 inches an hour and continued for several hours, all of it heading for Rush Creek.

A station off Sublett Road reported a total of 11.33 inches; the average was 8.76.

Why didn't the city emergency management folks have knowledge of this (I did) and sound our tornado/flood sirens?

Next, we are all paying a hefty stormwater fee. Why can't Director of Public Works Bob Lowry's crew use these funds now to clean up Rush Creek so it will drain decently, instead of waiting for approval by the Corps of Engineers? Rush Creek is badly overgrown with trees and brush in south Arlington and probably a lot of other places too.

-- Howard Livingston, Arlington

Jeers: To area news stations for their lack of coverage of the recent flooding. Two of my family members live in a condominium association that flooded so badly that it took ladders to save them from the rushing water. Apparently the unrealistic happenings of soap operas superseded actual human lives.

Cheers: To the Euless Fire Department, public works and city officials who were quick to respond to the victims of flooding in Trailwood, bringing pumps, helping hands and encouragement. Thank you also for taking the time to make safety checks in those homes. To live here really is FabEuless!

-- Audrey Morrison, Euless

EMERGENCY - ARLINGTON CITIZENS NEED HELP! (Not just flooding)

North Central Texas Communities Alliance

September 2010 - Emergency Notice

OUR FRIENDS IN ARLINGTON NEED YOUR HELP NOW!

If you find it outrageous that our city council is permitting the conversion of the "horse farm" tract into what will be a noisy, dangerous, twenty-four-hour Heavy Industrial zone for months at a stretch every year, please attend this meeting and sign a card registering your opposition.  Also consider actually speaking against the permit for up to three (3) minutes.

For additional questions please contact Ed Pischedda, Northern Arlington Ambience (Naa!)
naambience@gmail.com

To give you a better understanding of exactly why the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's (TCEQ) entire structure and procedural policies need to be reevaluated and changed, click on the link below and read an excellent investigative report that reveals the glaring "holes in the cheese" and why citizens have a high level of distrust of the TCEQ and their ability to protect our health and safety!

FORREST FOR THE TREES

JOIN AND BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION:

More Fort Worth Video

We've showed you the best Trinity River footage and the Fort Worth Way...now take a look at last week's council meeting.

Starting at 32:00 minutes there are 7 speakers in a row you might want to watch.  While all of them have some different concerns such as Mary's Creek Sewer Plant, the treatment of Mr. Don Woodard by the Mayor, the damage gas drilling is doing to our air, water and property values, all of these folks mentioned the same thing.  OUR MONEY and the TRINITY RIVER VISION. 

WHY do you think that is?  THE PEOPLE want answers.  To questions such as, wouldn't $26 million go a long way in keeping city employees paid and city services running?  And WHY are WE paying $26 million dollars?  Did WE get a vote?  Remember, that's only the Fort Worth portion (so far), you still have the Tarrant Regional Water District portion and the Tarrant County portion.  Oh yeah, where do those Federal funds come from?  YOU.

ANYONE ever going to answer?  Keep asking.  They can't turn all the mic's off.

Watch it here.
While all the presentations are great, Linda Walsh Jenkins who serves on Gateway Park Board is excellent. (35:50).  And Clyde Picht's questions are as well - the cost, scope and plans for the project have changed greatly, WHY has no one told YOU?  It's YOUR money.

More Fort Worth Way Video

Don't believe it when you hear about the Fort Worth Way?  Watch this City Council video from July.  You only have to see a couple of minutes to "get" the "way things are done here".

Watch it.  Then send help Fort Worth's Way.

http://fortworthgov.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=929

Go to 2 hours, 11 minutes and 25 seconds.