Sign up for the free daily Clarksville Now email newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cUltimately, we\u2019ve wanted to reach a solution that reflects the highest level of professional forethought and expertise, to help ensure that what we accomplish in Woodstock brings sustained, meaningful flood relief, and respects the interests of both the neighborhood and all city taxpayers. We want to get this right,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Why is Woodstock flooding?<\/p>\n
The flooding problem in Woodstock is continuing for complicated reasons, according to the news release:<\/p>\n
An unknown network of karst features is in the area, which likely shares connectivity with a massive topographical depression just north of the Tennessee-Kentucky state line.<\/p>\n
The lowest point in the area encompasses 13 square miles of stormwater drainage in high-volume rainfall events, the preponderance of which is in Kentucky, outside the City of Clarksville\u2019s scope of control.<\/p>\n
Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation (TDEC) stormwater guidelines require Clarksville to take on the uphill water from Kentucky.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy TDEC\u2019s rules \u2013 the uphill rule as they call it \u2013 we can\u2019t change the uphill stream of that water,\u201d city Street Department Director David Smith explained to the audience. \u201cWe can\u2019t bring that water and then reverse it somewhere else. We can do that with permits \u2026 and that\u2019s what we\u2019re waiting for.\u201d<\/p>\n
How will the city stop Woodstock flooding?<\/p>\n
The best short-term solution, according to the city news release, is to create additional stormwater storage capacity within the Woodstock basin, which would create the ability to better-sustain the \u201cstorm surge\u201d during heavy rains. <\/p>\n
\u201cOnce we complete the excavation part of this project, we\u2019re going to put that overflow in that allows water to automatically gravitate to the area it\u2019s supposed to \u2026 to the west of Trenton Road,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSubstantial completion is expected within 100 days. \u2026 The target is definitely to have it done before the spring rains,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
This is the first phase of the project developed by the city\u2019s third-party engineers.<\/p>\n
The next step is to relocate excess waters to an adjacent tributary that does not share the same basin watershed. This is the second phase of the project, and it involves pumping stormwater eastward, through an existing drainage easement along the state line, to a tributary that flows into Spring Creek. Spring Creek flows west into Big West Fork Creek, which flows south to the Red River, then the Cumberland River.<\/p>\n
Next steps to solve Woodstock flooding<\/p>\n
There are two key next steps in the process:<\/p>\n
Bids have been received by the City of Clarksville Street Department for the Woodstock stormwater management project, and a bid award is now pending.<\/p>\n
The City of Clarksville will continue to update Woodstock residents and the public through each step of implementation.<\/p>\n
Following the meeting, several residents raised questions about the plan and the follow-through. Some expressed frustration and their desire to move.<\/p>\n
Pitts told reporters he\u2019s committed to solving the flooding issues in Woodstock.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have an option. We have a viable option,\u201d he said. \u201cYou saw it tonight, and we\u2019re committed to executing that option. And we believe that this will solve substantially most of the problem. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou heard anxiety, I heard relief. I heard people who were relieved that we have finally got a plan that we\u2019re going to execute, and we\u2019re committed to doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n
| DOWNLOAD THE APP: Sign up for our free Clarksville Now app<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City of Clarksville officials presented to Woodstock neighborhood residents a plan to prevent the devastating floods that have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-214158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Mayor-Joe-Pitts-1200x768.jpg\")
Mayor Joe Pitts at the Woodstock Neighborhood meeting on Oct. 9, 2025. (Jazmin Logan)<\/p>\n