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Cal Jillson, Political Science, flooding no threat to proposed Trinity Parkway

WFAA

Originally Posted: May 29, 2015

DALLAS – There’s a lot of water in the Trinity River running through Dallas, but not enough water to reach where the proposed Trinity Parkway toll road would be.

The Army Corps of Engineers crunched the numbers Tuesday, saying the river crested Sunday at 40.18 feet — that’s a five-year flood.

Inundating the proposed road would take a 100-year flood.

“We’ve only had one 100-year flood and that was in 1908. The road would be safe,” said Craig Holcomb, executive director of the Trinity Commons Foundation, which strongly supports building a toll road inside the flood plain. READ MORE