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Iowa Ear: Des Moines' well-endowed flood control
Compiled by Political Editor Kathie Obradovich and Register staff members.
June 8, 2006
City design with a vast difference
An anonymous source at City Hall tipped Iowa Ear off to this aerial photo on the Polk County assessor's Web page. It's of the city of Des Moines' detention basin at 2617 Easton Blvd.
The nearly four-acre basin was constructed about two years ago and "took some of the load off of the pipe downstream" and helps prevent flooding, according to Des Moines City Engineer Jeb Brewer.
Brewer swears that consultants who work for the city did not design the $5.7 million detention basin to resemble anything, but recent e-mails to City Hall from area residents seem to have found "art" in the not-so-subtle phallic design.
"It's pretty functional," Brewer said. "There's no artistic statement in our detention basin."
Iowa Ear: Des Moines' well-endowed flood control
Compiled by Political Editor Kathie Obradovich and Register staff members.
June 8, 2006
City design with a vast difference
An anonymous source at City Hall tipped Iowa Ear off to this aerial photo on the Polk County assessor's Web page. It's of the city of Des Moines' detention basin at 2617 Easton Blvd.
The nearly four-acre basin was constructed about two years ago and "took some of the load off of the pipe downstream" and helps prevent flooding, according to Des Moines City Engineer Jeb Brewer.
Brewer swears that consultants who work for the city did not design the $5.7 million detention basin to resemble anything, but recent e-mails to City Hall from area residents seem to have found "art" in the not-so-subtle phallic design.
"It's pretty functional," Brewer said. "There's no artistic statement in our detention basin."
