Des Moines Iowa phallic flood control system

[55starchief]

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."

[Roadkill]

Quoting: 55starchief

. . . . (it) took some of the load off

Class.

[FUBAR]

I'm just wondering about the other Flood Control system that you can't see off the Left edge of the Photo...

Wonder if its downstream of this one...


**Drags his mind out of the gutter...**

[55starchief]

Quoting: FUBAR

Wonder if its downstream of this one...

Nah just looked on google earth

[Incursus]

Quoting: 55starchief

Nah just looked on google earth