Letter: Money won’t resolve valley’s flooding threat

Sunday, Feb. 27, 2000 | 9:40 a.m.

Money, I suppose? They've told residents before we need to spend another $1 billion in quarter-cent sales tax dollars, on top of the half-billion or so dollars we've spent already, to build more detention basins and concrete-lined flood channels in new housing developments. Of course, that doesn't work, as history repeatedly tells us. (Unless the flood control district recently has figured out a way to make floodwater flow uphill!)

So who are the biggest fools in the Las Vegas Valley? Is it the flood control district for assuring residents it can stop valley flooding with another billion dollars, or the residents for forking over sales tax dollars while standing knee-deep in muddy floodwater nearly every time it rains?

One thing is perfectly clear to me: The sand-gravel-concrete construction companies, who cash in on those lucrative flood control projects, sure aren't fools!

LARRY PAULSON

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