Walt that is true if the flooding is a back water flood. Meaning that the water is not moving very swift and deposits the silted soil from other land. The problem with what is picture is that it is current flooding. You don't get much of the silt as it is lighter. You get the heavier stuff. Which in most cases is sand. In some places the sand is 10-15 foot deep on top of the top soil. The ground will be costly to get back into production.
My brother has a bottom along a larger creek that is current flooded every few years. He has windrows of sand pushed along the edges of it. Even with his own dozer it costs him thousands of dollars per acre to remove the sand. It really wears the tracks on the dozer too.
I was talking to a fellow the other day that has some ground in western Iowa that was flooded last year. He thinks it will be 10 years or more before his ground is as productive as it was. He has sand in places to move and in the other places he says the compaction is just terrible. Think about how heavy water is per foot of depth. The soil is dead after being under water for months on end. He says even weeds are not growing very well.
He was also talking about how the Govt. is not really helping much with the flood they helped cause. The assistance is not even a drop in the bucket compared to the actual damage.
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