Flood Study is a Poor Idea

Thanks to Terry Jacoy for his vote against entering into an agreement with the Corps of Engineers to fund a study of Waitsburg’s flooding by the Touchet River and Coppei Creek.

Councilman Jacoy’s dissent of this study shows someone is thinking with open eyes that such knowledge is at the exclusion of wisdom. Waitsburg’s $225,000.00 share in a $550,000.00 package would go a long ways in lessening this city’s flood damage in order to clean out and deepen the river bottom in and beyond city boundaries. Doing what is needed, not “studying” it, is already evident. Read the aerial photos of the 1996 Flood.

Waitsburg flooding is the consequence of 150 years of limited insight about building a city on a delta. We have become an Island with four bridges.

Funding a study relies on the same intelligence and human opinion from the past 150 years. It has separated knowledge and intellectualism from wisdom. The boy who saw the king wore no clothes was honest—as is Terry Jacoy.

Big government is not a promoter of Common Sense, but a challenger to us common slaves to think.

Sincerely,

Phillip Monfort, Waitsburg