City of Salem PLUS

Large puddle forms after every rainstorm at Central St entrance to Derby Lofts Building. There is a Catch Basin at the corner of Derby and Lafayette Street and one about 100 feet north in front of AJ King bakery. Water does not flow to either. While this is a nuisance in warmer weather, it become a safety issue in winter when it freezes and people enter and exit the building from this often used entrance to the building.

Submitted as a catch drain issue because there is no catch drain at the end of our street. This causes significant flooding both from all points on the street, which then flows through a makeshift trench to the wetland area behind the property. This flooding is representative of any significant rain or snow. Submitting to request follow up to explore catch basin installation or mitigation from the city.

The previous request was marked CLOSED but nothing was changed or fixed.

Three basins along Forrester (near Emerton) have construction cloth lining them, all of which have several inches of dirt/mud built up. But the problem here is WE CAN'T HAVE THEM ON THIS STREET. We have flooding already when every basin is open. Now we get flooding any time it rains hard.
Moreover: These filters aren't actually working as intended because once the the drains go past capacity any debris trapped by the cloth just gets pushed up and out those basins, disperses into the flooded street and eventually go down the more open drains.

It would be one thing if these drains were catching all kinds of construction related debris, and then they got deposited into a dumpster or wherever, but they don't. They only contribute to more frequent flooding and then dump out any debris all at once.

We need them 100% REMOVED. Not looked into, or have better monitoring, but removed.

Thinking contractors are going to monitor these when it rains is nonsensical, first and foremost, because it assumes they'd even be here during any given storm. No one is going to rush out a 2AM to check on the drains at their jobsite. Please have them remove them asap, before we get additional storms coming through.

Water floods yard from street runoff. May need additional drainage.

My neighbor at 22 Nichols St. Installed a sump pump I assume and the discharge pipe runs from inside the house to the edge of the sidewalk so whatever discharge water comes out across the sidewalk then down the gutter on the street. This has caused a unsafe ice buildup across my driveway and my neighbors driveway at 18 Nichols St. Is there regulations about sump pump discharge running down a city street just because of this happening? Please help it has created a unsafe situation let alone possible contaminated water running down the street. I have lived here 27 years and have never encountered this problem before
Blaise Creane
20 Nichols St
Salem

Storm drain between 60 and 58 Appleton appears to have been covered/no longer there. May need to be reopened to assist with drainage during storms

Catch basin is filled with and covered by a lot of leaves.

Manhole collapsed in the middle of the road. It has been sinking for some time and it is getting worse.

storm drain clogged w leaves, yesterday the leaves caught fire and the fire department had to respond

Catch basin clogged at corner of Washington square South and East causing flooding in street

I know that a lot of effort was just put into fixing the drainage at the corner of Brown Street and Brown Street Ct, but the problem still persists. The catch basin needs to be lowered a couple of inches and the surrounding pavement needs to be sloped towards the basin.