Town Creek tamed: Vegetation upstream, understreet waterway 2016-07-07 - Columbia KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, Columbiamagazine.com. Town Creek has been tamed with the new drainage controls placed from Campbellsville Street in behind NAPA Auto Parts. The new channel, now less than one year old, effectively keeps stream water under Campbellsville Street, while upstream, all the way to Tutt Street, lush vegetation retards runoff to make flow through channel much more manageable. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Flood/Storm 6-7 Ju 2016: Rising water, Fairground St. Bridge 2016-07-07 - Fairground Street/KY 206/Liberty Road Bridge over Russell Creek, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. At 6:48amCT, this morning, Thursday, July 7, 2016 flood waters were just a few feet under the Russell Creek Brdige, as smaller feeders, at the time were calming down. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

A great old familiar friend is down 2016-07-07 - 600 Block, Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. This landmark tree, a highly regarded friend in Columbia's wonderful urban forest, in the 600 block of Greensburg Street, in Columbia, KY was felled by the storms and water. Photo Thursday, July 7, 2016. The tree, is an ancient Osage Orange or Hedgeapple Tree, Forester Billly Joe Fudge says. "And when if they cut it up with chainsaws, they'd better have plenty of chains. Osage Orange is the hardest wood in North America. It they try it at night, there be be fireworks like the 4th of July!" - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Sycamore Springs: Leatherwood Creek out of bounds 2016-07-07 - Nell, Adair County, KY - Photo by Cynthia A. Meyer. SYCAMORE SPRINGS, KY (Wed 6 Jul 2016) - A person usually thinks of the song Charlie Rich made famous, "Keep on Rollin' with the Flow" when they pass the Leatherwood Creek, with its slate bottom, barely a trickle, teaming with minnows, water skippers and a good coat of algae. The intermittent deluges of rainfall this Wednesday afternoon, Leatherwood Creek, would now put you more in mind of Tina Turner's "Proud Mary." A creek that started out "nice and slow" that turned "Rough" redirecting the water across Chestnut Grove Rd as it breached its banks . A person standing on the bridge looking down the normally placid creek could not help but sing a few choruses of "Rollin' on the River... - Cynthia A Meyer Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Leatherwood Creek: Just Rollin' with the Flow 2016-07-07 - Nell, Adair County, KY - Photo by Cynthia A. Meyer. Cynthia Meyer documented raging Leatherwood Creek's on Wednesday afternoon. The creek usually runs nice and slow, she observed, with barely a trickle, bringing to mind, she writes the song Charlie Rich made famous, "Keep on Rollin' with the Flow" and adds, The intermittent deluges of rainfall this afternoon Leatherwood Creek would now put you more in mind of Tina Turner's "Proud Mary". (In case you are wondering? No, I did not shuffle off the bridge with the same class and panache as Tina in her stilettos. I merely waddled back to the vehicle in my slippery wet Crocs!! - -Cynthia A. Meyer) Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Lincoln County Courthouse, Stanford KY 2016-07-06 - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c). July 2, 2016 morning sunshine put a spotlight on the Lincoln County Courthouse on a recent trip. As I studied the architecture, flags and landscape, I found myself wishing Columbia would be next in line to bury electric lines in our historic downtown. The subject has been brought up in the past at City Council meetings and always dismissed as "too expensive", however, many towns our size are finding the money for this improvement and I think we can, too. -- LW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Citizen comments made by three men at City Council meeting 2016-07-06 - City Hall, 116 Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY . The three men pictured spoke at the Columbia City Council meeting July 6, 2016. At left is Mr. Bill Anderson there on behalf of the late Jim Blair; Mr. Roy Rademacher, there to keep watch on city administration and to call for an investigation; and in back Mr. Larry Hutchison who spoke about drainage problems in his neighborhood. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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