Engineering PLUS

I am writing to you because my wife and I are elderly and we are having a flooding problem in our garage and basement due to the recent torrential rains on June 22 and 23. We have already lost stored items (essential items) because our driveway was built on a slope and we are receiving all the rainwater from the entire street because there is no stormwater sewer catch basin in front of our house that can drain all the water from the street during rain storms. These trees that you see in the photo produce a lot of leaves during the fall and when there are torrential rains my basement floods because there is no storm water sewer catch basin on the street next to my driveway. Other home owners have those catch basins next to their driveways. Can you help?

 

Sincerely,

 

Ricardo Dominguez

155 Hampshire Drive (Hampshire Road)

Hamden, CT 06518

[email protected]

Because of the hills of debris on the other side of the fence here, the canal trail gets flooded whenever there’s a substantial rain. No place for the rain to drain to.

Culvert on Harrison across from house #77 is totally clogged. It needs to be cleaned out and inspected for the cracks in the pipeline. It is flooding everyone's back yards all the way down to Eleanor St. Several neighbors have also committed, to date it's still not looked at. I started in March!!

The stream that runs between our road (Ridgewood Avenue) and the road parallel (Brookside Drive) has become increasingly flashy over the last two years. Large rainfall events lead it to break its banks, flooding the lower part of our back yard (and multiple others' yards). The repeated events are pushing the groundwater higher, meaning our sump pump is running more and risking the chances of basement flooding. Walking the stream it is clear that the culverts under Santa Fe and Churchill Rd through which the stream passes are too narrow - when the rains come they cannot handle the flow. Upstream, the pond at High Lane is silting up, meaning that it has less capacity. It is now common to the see groundwater bubbling up in multiple locations uphill from us. And on our part of Ridgewood, Brookside and Churchill, there are storm drains that are permanently backed up, leading to large pooling even when the rains have passed over and the flow in the stream has dropped again. The fix seems to demand that Hamden work with RWA to address these issues - drainage has become increasingly poor and the Town has not taken action despite the fact the issue appears years in the making. Please take action.

At the corner of West Shepard and at the end of Parafise Avenue there is a thick layer or ice. Someone is going to have an accident very soon. I think there is a spring somewhere nearby and we are always having running water 💦 so when the temperature falls it becomes frozen. Our street never gets paved and no one seems to care about the danger people lives are in. Please don’t wait for someone to die. The water need to be channeled somewhere because it goes across the street. It is at a blind spot so that makes it more dangerous for people coming around the corner. Please come out before the temp goes up to assess the area.

Water over Benham St. continuously. Public work came out to clear roadside culvert couple week ago. Thanksgiving ice was 20'- 30' long across entire road. Several time cars were heard sliding. This problem is on going for several years and really needs to be addressed once and for all. Thank you, Ray Wetmore

There is a significant amount of runoff water that comes from the street onto the property. This started happening a few years ago, after the paving/refinishing of the road.