Dear Editor:
As everyone who reads the News Tribune should know by now the local Ice Arena at Washington Park has been flooded twice this year.
What are interesting are the responses to the situation in the letters to the editor. On the one hand there were two letters expressing how the changes in watershed from woodlands and soil which absorb and slow water flow, to concrete and structures which increase the rate of water flow. The end result is the faster flow cannot be contained in the narrow creek and overflows its banks and backs up into the building.
The solutions provided were that every time a construction project is planned an analysis of water runoff and creating water detention systems should be included in the construction project, the possibility of moving the Ice Arena and redesigning the creek to handle the increase flow.
The second analysis of the situation was that the flooding was caused by man-made climate change which will only get worse unless immediate action is taken by imposing a carbon tax and increasing regulations on companies that produce carbon emissions. If these measures aren't taken the people must throw out reason and become eco-warriors.
I don't know which to choose, it is such a tough decision (hums to self while looking pensive and tapping fingers on table). I must say becoming an eco-warrior brings to mind the movie "Solar Babies" and sounds fun and exciting. Yet the logical rational side thinks the first list of solutions sounds more reasonable and intelligent (sigh). I will have to go with the first list of solutions and save my roller skates for the roller rink.