Touchet River Flood Recovery

This year in 2019 the Touchet river has record water flows due to melting snow and sustained raining over the past two weeks.  Calls to FEMA,  Walla Walla County EMS, Fish and Game,  Walla Walla Conservation district has indicated that there is zero financial aid available to help safe our home.  The water is on a direct path to my house and the river needs to be redirected back to its historical path.   Calls for aid to the insurance company has yielded zero results because FEMA has not classified this as a flood but instead erosion.   Calls to our bank have offered only small percent of  funds needed against the land value.  Because the home is in jeopardy, it is not able to be used as collateral.

We need to redirect flows, and restore the habitat to return this run of the Touchet back away from our home.  Immediate solution will just to stop the erosion of soil  hopefully before it reaches our home. 

Photo from google earth 2016:

Photo 2019:


Heavy earth moving equipment will be required, along with many many tons of rock. 


Heavy equipment operators, rip rap rock delivery, heavy side dump trucks, excavators, bulldozers  are all welcomed.

The river over the last two  weeks has taken a direct course towards our home,  we need help immediately to save our house.  We are already attempting to arrest the flows of water with our retirement funds and a small loan from the bank but we are at the cost of $10k a day.