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Standing Water Photos 3

We woke up to rain on Saturday morning. It continued off and on for most of the day with several “gully washers” (according to Rosemary) during the evening hours. In other words, we experienced hard rain with some wind thrown in for good measure.

According to language used by engineers Craig A. Smith and Co. “much of the Village experiences flooding after even minor storm events.”

Now, was what we experienced Saturday night considered a “minor storm event?” I really don’t know. It’s a vague statement. Also a curious assumption coming from a firm that to date has not started its survey and in my opinion lacks any factual data to support such a claim.

Let’s remember that the definition of "Flooding" given by Craig A. Smith themselves is "standing water on Village property for over a period of 12 hours." This we have all heard for ourselves during the workshop meetings.

So let’s now have a look at the results of our standing water on Sunday morning. The time elapsed between these photos was 4 hours. 

Area 1 (115 St. / 6th Ave.)

(click on any photo to enlarge) 

 

 

 

Area 2 (116 St. / 9th Ave.)

 

 

Area 3 (112 St. / 7th Ave.)

 

 

Area 4 (116 St. / 10th Ave.)

 

Area 5 (119 St. / 11th Ave.)

 

Area 6 (119 St. / 7th Ave.)

 

Area 7 (112 St. / 10th Ave.)

 

 

Area 8 (113 St. / 10th Ave.)

 

Areas 4, 5, 6 and 8 were not photographed again due to the insignificant standing water from the first morning pictures.  

Part of the “pitch” from Craig A. Smith is that we must make sure that our roads are accessible for Emergency Vehicles.  And this is both a good and valid point.

My question to our readers is this, based on these pictures; (all so far captured to date) do any of our roads look like they present an access problem for Emergency Vehicles to you?

We now have standing water photos collected from 2 hours, 4 hours and two other examples at approx. 7 hours apart.

So, what have we learned so far?

Based on photographic evidence, natural percolation and evaporation effectively clears the water from our streets in less than 7 hours.

This is not speculation or an opinion, this is fact.

Standing Watch-

Milton Hunter- The Biscayne Parker

P.S. This is a picture of what Storm Water Flooding really looks like: