Last week’s heavy rain dropped more than a month’s worth of precipitation in only a few days.
But it was well controlled by the area’s flood control system created by the Miami Conservancy District just over a century ago, after the Great Flood of 1913.
WYSO’s Mike Frazier spoke with Mike Ekberg, a hydrologist with the district, about how its network of dams, levees, and floodgates protects areas along the Great Miami River…