Walz visits Owatonna flooding site

Both the Owatonna People's Press and KEYC-TV covered a visit Congressman Walz made yesterday to a neighborhood in Owatonna that's been severely flooded several times in the past few years. Walz is seeking federal funding for a flood mitigation project to help them out.

The OPP's article, Walz visits sites damaged by fall floods, recalls the flood and proposed solutions. KEYC-TV reports in Walz Visits Owatonna Flood Site:

Heavy rains brought floods to Owatonna basements not once, but twice last fall and still today, sand bags are still protecting those homes. Congressman Tim Walz spent today touring one particularly hard-hit neighborhood. He's taken a request to Congress for seven point four million dollars in flood mitigation money. Congressman Tim Walz says, ''That hurts our economic growth in the long run, so this just makes good sense to me, and we have to keep pushing for it.'' Hoping that push will result in the funds, Walz says that money would go towards building another retention pond in order to take pressure off the sewer systems.

Video is available.

Image: radar screen shot from last August's flooding.