The intersection of Utopia Parkway and 65th Avenue in Fresh Meadows should no longer be plagued by flooding every time it rains.
Councilman Rory Lancman and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced Friday that several measures have been installed to mitigate flooding that has inundated residents for years.
The area has experienced severe floods since 1975 and residents have had to pump out their basements and repair flooded cars, spending thousands of dollars in the process.
The manhole cover in the area, which would have several feet of water shooting out of it when it rained, has been sealed and duckbill check valves have been installed in the catch basins. Duckbill check valves, which get their names from the shape they resemble, prevent back flow in the sewers.
4 comments:
Hmmmmm...we'll see.
40 years????????
can this truly be the time span that any improvements can come to a community?
So where will all that water that shot out of the manhole covers go? It will probably backflow into the homes. With that much pressure, that water WILL go somewhere.
JQ: DEP means Don't Expect Progress and that explains everything.
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