Flood from nowhere plagues OH city

[Algorem]

http://www.disasternews.net/news/article.php?articleid=3664

200+ homes damaged as water rises from ground, volunteers ready to help but no one knows when or where the water will go

BY NANCY HOGLAND | BELLEVUE, OH | April 22, 2008

Hundreds of volunteers from faith-based organizations around the nation stand ready and waiting to help families in this city who are experiencing flooding in their homes. The problem is – no one knows when the water will go down – because they don’t know why it’s coming up.

Although the weather has been fairly dry, for the past four weeks, water has been seeping up through the ground, flooding farmers’ fields, surrounding homes and filling basements, in some cases, to the tops of the stairs.

Mary Woodward, president of the Ohio’s Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) described the entire situation as “bizarre.”

“According to geologists who have come in to study the situation the water is coming from an overfull, underground aquifer, but no one is exactly sure of the source. Because we’re so close to Lake Erie, several people think that might be what’s feeding it, but truthfully, it’s just a guess,” she said. “In the meantime, while it’s sunny and warm with only a few clouds in the sky, people are busy sandbagging trying to protect their homes from rising waters.”...



The Flood That Will Not End

http://www.10tv.com/live/content/onnnews/stories/2008/04/25/bellevue_flood_continues.html?sid=102

Friday, April 25, 2008 7:55 AM
By Stephanie Mennecke
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BELLEVUE, Ohio — ...

Weeks have gone by, and funds are getting tighter for the city. But help is on the way.

The Ohio EMA says the disaster relief program is now in effect for the flooded area.

"Local municipalities will be able to be reiumbursed for costs they have incurred up to 75%," said Tamara McBride, Ohio EMA Spokeswoman....

That's good news for a city that's channelling water through makeshift piping - 18,000 feet of pipe at a cost of half a million dollars...



New theories about bizarre flooding in Bellevue, Ohio

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=88071


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BELLEVUE -- A new theory has arisen for the cause of the bizarre flooding plaguing Bellevue, Ohio.

Residents in this small town in Huron County have been coping with floods for five straight weeks. Some of them theorize that something has plugged up one or several of the underground sink holes, pushing millions of gallons of water to the surface.

Viewed from the air, it's hard to imagine that the dozens of small lakes and ponds all suddenly appeared five weeks ago. The earth has pushed up millions of gallons of spring water to the surface of this rural community against logic and against gravity.

The results have been devastating for almost a thousand residents. Many homeowners are at the breaking point, pumping out their homes around the clock, day after day, to keep the waters from destroying their homes...

[Yael]

1. How bizarre

[baldguy]

2. There used to be a mine in the town I grew up in.

For 95 yrs the mine owners pumped out the mine & kept the ground water low. When the mine closed, they stopped the pumps. The problem is that in those 95 yrs suburbia moved in, so many of the homes around the mine now have permanently flooded basements.

[mac2]

7. Can't they rise the homes off the ground to stop their

flooding? It is flood damage. Sue the mining company if they are still in business. In Wilmington, NC the homes are all up off the ground to protect them during high water tides.

[LaurenG]

3. We aren't being flooded but we were planting

this week and water was just oozing into the holes we dug. It was the strangest thing I'd ever seen but I chalked it up to growing up in the desert, which limited my experience in wetter climates. I thought it must be how Ohio was in the spring time after the ground was saturated.

[glowing]

4. Very odd. Sometimes it seems as if this earth is alive.. One week a new

desert pops up, and then in the middle of America a new water source springs alive... So bizarre.. Sometimes I wonder just how far out there the Gaia hypothesis is.. Its a very unique theory and was very interesting to have studied in a science class during college..

[htuttle]

5. Wonder if it's related to the small earthquakes that hit the midwest recently?

There's big rocky plates moving around down there, ya know...

[mac2]

6. Good thought.

Or it migt be rising water tables from all the rains. I looked up to see where this town is located. It is just south of the tip of Lake Michigan. They might have a low water table which is closer to the ground.

There is a coal mine operation just four miles from the quake epicenter. I guy from the area called a city radio station to report the quakes and talk about the area damage, etc. The quake shaking was felt all the way into Ohio and surrounding states.

[Geostudent]

8. This is actually my hometown..

It is an interesting area geologically. The rock is all karsted limestone, meaning a lot of caves etc. under the ground as evidenced by a local place called Seneca Caverns. A lot of streams in the area are spring fed(ground water). This area was actually a spring fed stream. When this first started, I looked at google maps and you could follow the stream all the way to the lake through ditches. Now you can see the new lake. There really is nothing you can do but reroute the stream which is not easy/feasible in this situation. I have included a google map link to the area so you can see the new "lake". There is actual areas of flooding in the city, but harder to see. <http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=41.323411,-82.831142&spn=0.007203,0.014505&t=h&z=16>

[semillama]

11. The area also used to be inside the limits of the Black Swamp

before it was drained pretty much out of existence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Nearly the entire county used to be wetlands 200 years ago.

Makes me want to drive up and look for shorebirds!

[soothsayer]

9. Jeez, people---bottle it!

[TechBear_Seattle]

10. It's God's judgement, I tell ya!

The people of Bellevue, Ohio must have been planning a gay pride event or some such. REPENT!!







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[Indenturedebtor]

12. Ok here's a crackpot theory

Earthquake set loose a magma bubble which is slowly pushing it's way up to the surface... forcing water ahead of it!

Get readyfor a mega volcano in Dayton! :hide: