‘Wasted’ driveways, funky pond scum: Leaky canal frustrates homeowners
The chronic flooding that caused tens of thousands of dollars in damage to Susan and Ora Sherwood’s Anderson home and property has finally subsided. She only needs to look out into her yard to see the destruction wrought from six months of water that she said leaked out of the nearby Anderson Cottonwood Irrigation District Canal. The landscaping around her house was inundated with water from the canal, her drinking water well was swamped, trees were killed, the underside of her home was damaged and her driveway is “wasted,” she said. … District officials said they plan to spend millions this coming winter repairing and lining the canals to prevent water from flooding nearby property again.