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Title: Pondering a Sweeping Vista of Brush Creek Beauty
Description: Illustrations and map of proposed improvements along Brush Creek. The design was developed by Bucher, Willis & Ratliff Consulting Engineers, Planners & Architects under commission by the parks department. Target date for completion is 2020; flood control portion, 2011.
Date: 2003-05-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: First Overhaul on Brush Creek
Description: The paving of the creek bed began in November 1935, at a cost originally estimated at $1,395,000, and at one time employed 1,647 WPA workers. Concrete was laid eight to 10 inches thick and 70 feet wide. City officials explained at the time that paving the creek bed would prevent accumulation of stagnant pools, which had created a nuisance and would also permit the channel to empty floodwaters into the Blue River an hour or more sooner and prevent backing up. Severe flooding occurred on the creek in 1934 and 1935. Opponents of the T. J. Pendergast political machine then in control of the city affairs criticized the project, however, as a windfall for Pendergast's concrete company [Ready-Mixed Concrete Company].
Date: 1962-06-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Seeking Brush Creek's Promise
Description: According to this article, the development of Brush Creek involved three parts: (1) a flood protection project; (2) a project prettier than the concrete trough the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers suggested; (3) to promote development along the creek which would be a magnet for people. Efforts to promote people to the area have so far mostly failed. Events that might work are mentioned. Includes a map of the creek entitled "Along Brush Creek." Work on the creek was spurred by the 1977 flood that swamped the Plaza and took 25 lives. The Corps of Engineers agreed to build a protection system that would essentially create a large trough from Roanoke Parkway to Troost Avenue. Within it would flow the trickle that Brush Creek remains upstream from Roanoke.
Date: 2005-07-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Troost Span Proposal Takes a Sleek Shape
Description: A public meeting is planned for June 16, 2005, evening to discuss the new Troost Avenue bridge over Brush Creek. ''The project design combines artistic and functional elements as part of the channel improvements for flood control on Brush Creek.'' Article includes drawing of the proposed bridge.
Date: 2005-06-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: 20 Years Later, We Dread the Next Flood
Description: Article focuses upon remembrance of the flood that impacted the Kansas City area during the summer of 1993. Business and property owners in the affected areas are interviewed and discuss both their recollections and fear of future floods. Representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers and other river management agencies are interviewed and discuss past projects aimed at improving flood control in the area and risk factors that may lead to similar flood disasters.
Date: 2013-06-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Floods Ravaged Plaza - 30 Years Ago Today
Description: Article and photos looking back at the deadly flash flood that struck the Country Club Plaza on the night of September 12, 1977. The resulting damage was disastrous, including 25 lives lost, over 1,000 people left homeless, and over $100 million in property damage. The photos featured in this article were only recently uncovered by the Northeast News staff.
Date: 2007-09-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Traveling Fire Show Lights the Night on Brush Creek
Description: An event called WaterFire Kansas City was held on September 8, 2007, on Brush Creek at the Country Club Plaza. The show originated in Rhode Island and uses both sights and sounds to entertain. "A series of log bonfires were set with torches in the middle of the creek in the heart of the Country Club Plaza as throngs of people lined creek walkways, banks and bridges. New Age, classical, opera and other music resonated along the waterway, and fire-eating dancers entertained." The event is scheduled to return on October 13, 2007.
Date: 2007-09-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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