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North West Nashville Finally Gets Some Flood Attention
May 6th, 2010
Today I was with Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, Councilman Jerry Maynard and Police Chief Ronald Surpass as they toured North West Nashville.
First they came over to a disaster center set up at the Hadley Park Community Center on 28th Avenue in front of Tennessee State; where assistance was being providing with filing FEMA claims and accessing other public services.
Both State Assembly Woman Brenda Gilmore, and her daughter Councilwoman Erica Gilmore were also on hand at the Community Center.
After talking with the people and viewing activities, the Mayor and company, with media in tow, headed to the golf course on Ed Temple Blvd that still has massive sitting water; though from the water markers we could see that it had receded by a couple of feet.
Later on this afternoon I was back over there on my own and witnessed that the apartments next to the golf course had flooding still sitting in the parking lot up past the fenders of cars.
From there we moved on to the Bordeaux area, to the Neighborhoods off of County Hospital Rd. We parked besides Whites Creek Park where the water was still slightly over flowing, covering the park, leaving about a 20 yard pool in the dipped down section of the street boarding the park.
We also witnessed still sitting water in many people’s back yards. The folks over there told us of their basements having been flooded.
We then ventured further north up Clarksville Highway to the West Hamilton/Tucker Rd area. Almost every house along West Hamilton had piles of debris, or better yet, personal belongs stacked out in front of it on the curb: dressers, washing machines and dryers, mattress, clothing and more.
The Tucker road bridge had crumbled with the pavement looking like it had been aggressively jack hammered.
Luckily much help had finally come to the the area. Neighbors organized a water and supplies drop-off area at the intersection of West Hamilton and Tucker Rd. There was a strong police presence to keep onlookers and criminal elements out of the neighborhood. College students from Trevecca University were helping to clean out homes, as well as the Metropolitan Alumni Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority amongst others.
At 4:30 Councilmen Lonnell Mathew’s held a community meeting at the North Police Precinct on 26 Avenue off of Clarksville Highway, featuring Department of Public Works Director Bill Lynch and State Senator Thelma Harper.
I’ll have pictures and more specific stories from the tour and the meeting in the coming days.
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Thank you for helping to bring attention to the Bordeaux and North Nashville area. I know the constutients in these areas feel much better to know that every part of the city is important and that city leaders have them in mind as resources are being sent out.
I am so proud of the neighbors. Many of them saved their neighbors and acted in very courageous ways.
Thank you again
Brenda Gilmore
It is probably very difficult to see the levels of standing water. There’s going to be a lot of damage done by the flooding.
True. A lot of it’s obvious though. When I get these pictures uploaded, you’ll see how water is all in the street and just sitting in people’s back yards.
A church that I know about though, didn’t even realize they had some flooding until last night. It was in an underground storage area they don’t regularly go in.
Rep. Gilmore, thank you for stopping by.
It has been great to see how the North Nashville neighborhoods have organized themselves to each other.
[...] Two Weeks after the flood waters fell in North Nashville, the recovery work was still in effect. I retraced the tour that Mayor Karl Dean took on May 5th, the Wednesday after the flood, as recounted in last week’s article North West Nashville Finally Gets Some Flood Attention. [...]