Overland Park.

Overland Park, Kan., is a typical 1950s-'60 midwestern suburb from its cul-de-sacs and 50-foot-tall oaks right down to its exhibit drainages that fail to encounter city stormwater standards. Many of its neighborhoods were formed before city incorporation in 1962 when stormwater drainage was ofttimes unregulated. Natural drainages left to carry stormwater between the sides of the city were inadequate from the start, and flooding of roads and homes worsened as unravelling continued. For the city and homeowner unsightly and eroding banks and accidental drownings were further touchs

In 1993, the Overland Park Public Works Department tackled the unclose drainage problem in one particularly flood-prone neighborhood just southward of Kansas City. There, an unimproved channel detriment through established backyards between double-cell, coagulate box culverts under busy roads at both ends. Construction forward complete drainage improvements in the area was look fored to carry flood flows without issue

The ...