After they built the retaining walls the water flowed more heavily along her property it eroded washed her land away. It’s common sense 🙄 she needs a Civil Engineer.
lol, downstream bank improvements have nothing to do with her problem. Her problem was waiting until it started swallowing her back yard until she did anything about it. It didn’t happen overnight. She ignored it, now it’s a bigger problem.
Dragonfly is correct. City did work up stream to stabilize bridge.....unfortunately water speed picked up past the bridge as a result and eroded her property. This was a direct result of city "improvement ". CITY should fix this especially since runoff also increase with city mega projects that tax payers approved.
@@jamescaudill1248i think so too, but no house should have been built so close to the creek. City shouldn’t have zoned it like that nor do any reinforcement for the previous houses.
Improvements to the city are the city engineers responsibility and understanding how new construction will affect water runoff and existing structures.
some dump trucks full of dirt and fill in the creek on the property line and let that rich neighborhood flood. City basically said you own the creek so fill it in and get your yard back. i bet some guys will bring in some free dirt for this.
@@VergilTheLegendaryDarkSlayer Cities do it all the time, look at Tampa right now, you think they thought all that through before building, Flooding and no drainage proves the city don't care and construction workers suck at their jobs for building junk anyway.
@@theotheleo6830 guess she should do nothing and lose her house, whats your solution smart guy. you better have a good one or everyone that reads your comment is gonna slam you in the comments.
She should have stopped it a long time ago with a wall.. City says she owns half the creek, fill it in. There are thousands of construction/land moving companies out there needing places to dump rock/dirt/etc and will dump for free.
The concreted part of the upstream creek absolutely cause the water to flow much faster and with greater force hitting the bend in the creek with enourmous eroding impact. Tge dirty town administraters taking good care of tge afluent folks while digging the less affluent ones out of a home. Dislodging the elderly and widows. Shame on tbe town leadership, greedy for all the sports entertainment revenue, but un homing the residents who made it possible even for their jobs. Shame on the township bosses.
That woman is going to lose her home in another couple years. Anything that jeopardizes the cityscape and it's people should not be negotiable. Take care of the problem and quit playing favorite because her property isn't grand enough for your standards. It's disgusting! 😢
Abbott continues to just sit there at the table with big business. So many have spent their entire lives without seeing him stand alongside anyone in Texas.
@@angiespradlin3026 cause "blue cities" make decisions like this regarding oil production and fracking. Keep blaming all the consequences of your actions on "blue." Hilarious watching Abbott steam roll over Texas.
If I were her and had money I’d build an embankment there and backfill it in. Whatever happens after that won’t be her problem because she’s just returning it to its original natural course. If no money, just get people looking to get rid of debris like old concrete and block to fill it in.
I lived in Texas for years. Flood mitigation usually means hurrying the water further downstream so it floods some one else. Before we moved out, we watched new subdivisions upstream of us channel more and more water into the creek near us and with every rain, the water in the street behind us got deeper and deeper.
Cities cater to the rich like they always have, It's another form of wealth distribution. We all pay for the city's special attention to rich welfare and corporate welfare.
@@JoeThorne-j6g the Creek would wash it all away. She needs to build a reinforced retention wall and a riparian buffer zone so dense plants and trees rooted in the creek slow down the speed of erosion.
@@mrparts The water goes through the culvert I used concrete precast interlocking 3 foot diameter pipe and covered it with solid waste I did that with a ditch on my property 25 years ago and it worked
Ok... on one hand she bought a house next to a stream... ofc she took a risk of flooding and erosion... HOWEVER... the cities does hold some responsibility because of how they dealt with water drainage from rain... they basically DIRECTED ALL RUNOFF TOWARDS THE STREAM as it is a natural runoff but because they did this, the stream is getting EXCESSIVE amounts of water and causing high river levels and increasing the pace of EROSION Therefore the city does have some responsibility
The new embankment was built DOWNSTREAM from her property and is not causing increased erosion. Also, there is a utility pole being threatened by erosion. She should complain to the utility and I'll bet the city will be able to take action after that.
1st, fInd out if the creek is technically on her property. Get a lawyer involved, get civil engineers out there, get a property survey done to verify and clearly mark her property line (i.e. document everything, take photos, etc.). Talk to your homeowners insurance company, let them know what is happening and ask them if they can do anything to prevent the creek from causing irreparable damage to her home which they would then be liable for. They might help get on the city's case, to do something, or maybe they would be willing to pay for some work to be done in order to prevent further and or potential damage to her property. If the creek is on her property, hire a contractor, have them drop a 6 foot diameter culvert pipe in the creek and back fill in, around and over it with tons of rock and fill soil. Then put your fence back up on your property line with no trespassing signs every 10 feet. If the city says a word, tell them the creek is on your property (as proven by the survey) and since they were asked to fix their part of the problem and they refused to act, you were left with no other option but to address it yourself before the erosion undercut your house and made it unlivable. Tell them to call your lawyer, and have a nice day.
She should go down there and dig a turbine hole and create a micro hydro. When the city comes by and says you cant do that on the city owned creek, just say "I'm sorry, this part is private property".
That 'lawyer' is fulla crap, the woman has every right to sue since it is water coming from a city-maintained waterway, their inaction affects her land
2:28 I gotta ask wtf is the point of living in a First World Nation, If your own City/ Community isn't willing to do anything to help you knowing you're either going to face Homelessness due to the situation. This absolutely doesn't make any sense in the face of everything we have Accomplished as a Society.
It can easily be argued that because the city has larger buildings in the surrounding areas that the water runoff from these buildings are causing the erosion. The city is to either help her or divert to runoff from larger buildings to a different system that will not affect the house.
I live south of this area in Waxahachie and have been having the same problem with the city here. My property borders city property and the cities refusal to fix drainage issues myself and my neighbor have lost property due to flooding. In the last 3 inch rainfall we had our front 40 ft of our property was 3 ft underwater and water was running over the roadway instead of through the 9 culverts that are 36 in diameter. The level of our property has dropped by 3 feet in the last 10 years and the city refuses to do anything about it. Maybe we need to sue the city under the takings clause of the constitution. i wish the CBS station that posted this would contact us!!!
It would be helpful to know of the city made modifications on private property for those new homes. If the homeowner owns half of the creek, who owns the other half? There are likely flood risk maps, she could quality for flood mitigation if her home is in a potential flood zone.
It is her own problem. There's absolutely no reason why the city is at fault. It would be like blaming the government for an act of mother nature. If anything the homeowner insurance should
Looked at the satellite views of the area. The creek actually begins as drainage from the private properties north of Woodbrook Street before widening and flowing into a designated waterway. The portion of the creek in question is, unfortunately, part of the private lots that line it. The creek bed belongs to her and her neighbors.
I would start by going to the city and saying that since I'm losing part of my property to the creek that I expect my property taxes will also be going down as well. When they inevitably balk at this and say that the creek is part of your property, get that in writing and ask for clarification that you have to fix this issue yourself. Then begin unloading a couple truckloads of fill dirt, gravel, stones, or whatever is cheap into the edge of the creek to force it away. It will of course lead to minor flooding upstream and heavy sediment buildup downstream which will eventually force the city to acknowledge the issue and hopefully offer a solution. And if they try to fine you, you can take it to court and get an easy win.
She should get a RESTRAINING ORDER against the town , county and state plus any employees who work directly or as subcontractors for them both presently and in the future to keep them off of HER PROPERTY . Then she should have a trapper relocate some beavers to her property to dam up the steam and let the water back up on the RICH PEOPLE'S side of the bridge . When the town sewer maintenance workers come on HER PROPERTY to try to remove the beavers she should then have the town sewer maintenance workers removed off her property by the POLICE unles they sign a contract to fix the damages that was originally done to HER PROPERTY by the erosion caused by the city improvements to the rich people property on the other side of the bridge FREE OF CHARGE to HER PROPERTY and make the same improvements for HER and bring HER PROPERTY up to the SAME code as the rich people's property .
That's property value loss, and if the 1.8 million dollar homes get it, but she doesn't, and the flooding is ruining her property, and destroying even her fence then they should have put up retaining walls for her.
Lay thirty inch pipe from one end to the other then put an ad on marketplace free fill dump fill the whole thing up level pack it down and extend your yard
I see what theyre trying to do, they are forcing her out, but maybe now that the news is involved, funny how nothing is done until the news gets involved
It looks like she is the one that caused the issue by digging into the steep bank. It also looks like she has sprayed herbicides along the bank. Which all those plants held her bank in place.
Her land is eroding from the top down due to runoff. She should stop watering her lawn, remove the concrete slab, and install rain gutters so water can be run to the sides and not directly off the back of her property.
No the city did the retaining walls down stream, because of the price of the houses and the rich people who live in them!!!! Money talks and makes the city do for them!!!!!!!
Private property? Build a dam and make eletricity. 😅 That will get their attention. Private property on a water way. Thats stupid, I thought land owners didnt have ownership of the creek, maybe its just the water itself.
Because they fixed the problem downstream of her, but decided it wasn't an issue upstream of that point. The city can fix it, the city doesn't want to fix it. It simply comes down to who is paying more in property taxes, and it isn't her.
@@daexion did you even read ur comment clown ? FYI water doesn’t flow upstream, so this problem has NOTHING to do with anything upstream beyond that point. Water flows one direction only & that is down stream Regardless the city didn’t change the direction of water / the creek The city didn’t add more drainage dumping more water into the creek AGAIN you wanna own a creek on ur property, this is water does, it corrodes soil something you should have learned middle school Also city isn’t responsible for more than 25ft beyond the center of a road
