Improvements that were made to Greenwood's creeks and drainage system has helped tremendously to prevent flooding during all the rainfall this spring. According to Mayor Doug Kinslow, there were several homes in 2004 that received flood water. In 2007, while the City was working on cleaning up three of its major creeks, Atlanta Street was flooded. Twenty to thirty homes in Westwood and Indian Hills were pretty heavily affected. Now, while some flash-flooding is inevitable, residents in the Indian Hills subdivision say the water no longer gets into their homes.
Mayor Kinslow said "It feels great not to have that problem, not to have to worry about your citizens in danger of losing, certainly there belongings, but more importantly their lives or their homes. There's nothing more important than that."
The three-quarter cent sales tax, part of which goes to the City's Street Department, funded all the work. The tax is up for renewal in November of 2016.
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