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Here we go again. The county has approval to contract to have eight sections of the county's streams cleaned up following the flooding related to Hurricane Fran.
Furthermore the county is in a position to get started sooner than surrounding counties because its projects already have approval from the Natural Resources Conservation Service when other counties do not. Nevertheless County Administrator John McCarthy warned the members of the Board of Supervisors that the time involved in the contracting process will not allow the projects to get underway before next year unless the weather is extremely cooperative.
Now the rest of the county can experience the frustration felt by people in Harris Hollow last year as projects are much more limited in scope than people expect. The NRCS permits only allow the streams to be restored to their pre-flood condition, and those who live along the streams are not allowed to say what those conditions were. The gradual siltation of local streams cannot be corrected. Only the large gravel beds and large piles of trapped debris deposited during the flood may be moved and those only from selected sections of the streams.
With luck there will not be further examples of seed scattered on rock and carefully mulched.
As frustrating as the process was in Harris Hollow last year, the work probably helped keep the flooding this year from being as bad as it would have been if the work had not been done.
If the county is lucky sections of the north and south forks of the Thornton River, Piney River, Hazel River, Hughes River and Battle Run will be cleaned up before the next flood hits.
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