Arrow-right Camera
Subscribe now

Give culvert a rest

A follow-up to your recent article regarding driving range flooding at Indian Canyon Golf Course: Here it is July and the range has finally dried up (barely in time to avoid a community embarrassment when the Rosauers Open/Invitation golf tournament is held in a couple of weeks).

As late as early June, pools of water remained and only a week or so ago still an ugly mud bog.

What’s the cause of the annual fiasco? Well, now, here we have a difference of opinion: To all those of us who frequent the range, including yours truly, the culprit is that culvert which drains street water directly to the range. But the city/county experts aren’t so sure. Nope, they say, that development doesn’t produce that much water.

Well, OK, let’s accept that the cause lies elsewhere. If they are right we are left asking why we need that culvert at all. So why not humor all us non-experts who, while admittedly not expert groundwater geologists, do think we know gushing water when we see it. Why not immediately take out that culvert and see what happens? In the meantime, let the experts continue to dig (so to speak).

Robert Herold

Spokane



Letters policy

The Spokesman-Review invites original letters on local topics of public interest. Your letter must adhere to the following rules:

  • No more than 250 words
  • We reserve the right to reject letters that are not factually correct, racist or are written with malice.
  • We cannot accept more than one letter a month from the same writer.
  • With each letter, include your daytime phone number and street address.
  • The Spokesman-Review retains the nonexclusive right to archive and re-publish any material submitted for publication.

Unfortunately, we don’t have space to publish all letters received, nor are we able to acknowledge their receipt. (Learn more.)

Submit letters using any of the following:

Our online form
Submit your letter here
Mail
Letters to the Editor
The Spokesman-Review
999 W. Riverside Ave.
Spokane, WA 99201
Fax
(509) 459-3815

Read more about how we crafted our Letters to the Editor policy