by B. White and Chase Thomason
...For May 2013, (click here) the city of Oklahoma City received a new record of 14.52 inches of rain. On average, the month of May sees 4.65 inches of rain, so OKC nearly tripled that this year.
I suggest the US Army Corp be sought to provide an opinion to the causes of the accumulation of water in areas that caused deaths and flash flooding. It would be prudent to find a way to build some culverts. There are some that come pre-fab and ready to install.
The water simply has to flow downhill in a gradual grade to a basin of some kind. A manmade lake or to a lake(s) that already exist.The lakes should be dredged to make them deeper if necessary, but, only if they proved to flood themselves.
The speed of the rainfall and how fast it had to be dissipated to protect citizen's lives will have to be determined to engineer the proper system, but, it is doable.
That clay does not provide good foundation for road and bridges. The structures have to stand on their own. It just crumbles and washes out. This is with drought conditions, too. All those modifications to living in Oklahoma City and the surrounding towns should prove to be rather interesting public works projects.
