Comments on: Another Flood Plain Subdivision

By: Slim Jim

Slim Jim — Thu, 25 May 2006 00:55:54 +0000

Sharon, It’s been possible for at least seven years. Once you transfer your rights you cannot get it back. However, the Irrigation District isn’t going to be giving out water in the future, so there is really nothing to loose – except your semi-annual fees.
Good post

By: Sharon Ullman

Sharon Ullman — Sat, 20 May 2006 03:37:42 +0000

To Jon Q and others who live in the New York Irrigation District yet have no access to water but are still paying semi-annual fees: Please call the Irrigation District on Monday (378-1023) and look into how you can transfer your water rights back to the District so you can stop paying for something you do not get! I do not believe it was always possible to do so, but it is now.

By: Joe moran

Joe moran — Fri, 19 May 2006 20:48:52 +0000

My question here is ” they may be well heeled, but one wonders what is going on upstairs?” do they have stock in recreational boating companies.

Why did their local politicians allow the developers to build in such an unsafe area?
Sounds like their the same developers that have been turning Boise into a overpopulated, traffic congested ,polluted, nightmare!!!

By: Sisyphus

Sisyphus — Fri, 19 May 2006 14:44:25 +0000

Sorry Catherine I missed the hyperbole. Its not the first time and I’m sure it won’t be the last. Tam, yours I got. You crack me up.

By: Jon Q Publique

Jon Q Publique — Fri, 19 May 2006 03:57:54 +0000

Well the hydro may not save us anything on power, but for those of us lucky enough to live in the New York Irritation District with no access to water (thanks to some developer 40 plus years ago) the Seattle revenue does help to reduce the annual irritation assessment that shows up in the mail each year at Christmas time.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Fri, 19 May 2006 02:55:11 +0000

Sisyphus, I was joking.

By: T.J.

T.J. — Fri, 19 May 2006 02:50:58 +0000

Hey, Sisyphus – I wish you were in charge of stuff – maybe there would be some common sense running local governments instead of what we have.

By: Sisyphus

Sisyphus — Thu, 18 May 2006 15:29:45 +0000

Thanks for posting on the new development. When this contoversy began my wife, a mapmaker for a state agency, sent an aerial photo of the island showing the new lots. All I could think was that the madness continues. The developer only has to wait six months and the buying and forgetful public will greedily gobble up those lots for their place on the river.

I have to reiterate that I agree the City of Eagle should be sued for ignoring the threat of flooding. Not because they should alleviate the potential flood risk but for allowing the development into a place where a flood will assuredly occur. There are plenty of necessary community amenities that could have been more properly placed in the flood plain like parks or golf courses, thus preserving the prime location for all, not a few, and preserving popular wildlife riparian corridors.

From a community planning standpoint it makes sense not to build structures, particularly residential structures, where the water will run.

Which brings me to Catherine’s comments. I don’t think dikes or levees are the answer. You’ll just be pushing water into somebody else’s place. On May 17 the news channels ran a story on a long time farmer experiencing his first flood event and which he blames on upstream development. Moreover the proposal would never fly because of the permitting requirements, the substantial increase in the cost of the development, and the most assured griping from other riparian landowners.

By: Tam

Tam — Thu, 18 May 2006 14:28:59 +0000

One does feel a little empathy for the elderly gentleman on Channel 7 news last evening. He has lived on Eagle Island for 37 years. This is the first year there has been flooding of his place and no one really cares. I suspect that all of the development, retaining walls, levies, berms, and what-have-you likely diverted the water from the mansion district and now the mobile home park will suffer. The gentleman is frustrated because when KOI central flooded, all resources were put toward rectifying the situaiton. Now, he is flooding and there is no aid. Commissioner Rick Yzagguire said the reason was because they are taking care of the main roads first. NEWS FLASH to the COUNTY COMMISHES…there are NO other roads flooding. Just this one. For crying out loud, go help this 75 year old man fill sandbags. BTW, I have heard that the Brookwood Koi have taken up with a gang of unruly Carp in a big eddy outside of town. Buy, my sources are often crappie, so what do I know.

By: dh

dh — Thu, 18 May 2006 11:25:07 +0000

In retrospect one of the larger mistakes we Idahoans made was not giving the greedy souls to the south and west of us our water when they wanted to shuttle it to their states. As it has turned out, that would have been the lesser of the evils. Having them move here to consume, pollute and “recreate” on it (and even having the audacity to gripe about having too much of it during a normal year) has certainly been no bargain.

How naive of us to have worried about hydro power and agricultural irrigation back in the nineteen sixties and seventies.

Would that we could just renig and give them all our precious river water now, with the proviso that ALL refugees from those states be repatriated upon the start of the pipeline(s). If the Boise, the Payette and the Snake were dry, perhaps the allure and myth of Idaho would not be so strong. I would be very pleased to see the newbies deported back home to consume, pollute and recreate with the diverted water from our no longer flowing rivers.

Guardian, do you suppose those perfidious, but coy, escaped Koi have made it to the now flooded lower portion of Eagle Island and are arrogantly trying to breed our hatchery trout? I think the residents of lower Eagle Island and we, the owners of the Hatchery, should sue the developers and homeowners who have caused this new downstream flooding.

EDITOR NOTE– For you non-library types “perfidious” is deceitful and untrustworthy.