New plan for stormwater runoff

[Mary Miller]

Hi everyone,

Phil Peden and Pat Murphy (City Utilities Dept.) have proposed a revised plan to fix the stormwater runoff problems along S. Dunn St. The new plan takes all of the concerns we shared with them into account. 

The gist is that the city will replace the buried stormwater pipe along Palmer, between Allen and Davis, and tie into it to carry rainwater from Dunn St. 

The pipe along Palmer is in need of repair, and the city wanted to replace/enlarge it anyway. They will run a new pipe along Allen, between Dunn and Palmer. The new pipe will carry the water off the Dunn St. hill. They will install swales along the east side of Dunn in front of Jack's house, and along several stretches on Dixie and Allen. The swales will feed into the new Allen St. pipe.

There won't be any work done along the 1000 block of S. Dunn, except for cleaning out the existing swale along the west side of the street.

Just wanted to give you a head's up about the new plan, and encourage you to come to the meeting tomorrow. Isabel and I talked to Phil and Pat today, and we can share more specifics about the plan, timeline, etc.

Thanks,

Mary

[Jeff Firestone]

Hip hip, hooray! We'll need to look over they're shoulder, of course, but I think they listened and have made some effort to make us satisfied.  Questions we can ask them: * swales on one or both sides of Dunn on Jack's block?  That seems to be a lot of water. * how to keep the gravel shoulder on the shoulder and not filling the swale? (Southermost Palmer has most of its gravel washed onto Hillside this week) * What capacity is the swale and therefore what size storms is it expected to handle? * will there be check dams? (technical term for bars about 1/4 height of swale to slow water and reduce erosion / sediment loss) * swales or pipe on Allen? (swales are cheaper and greener, but you don't want a bike to fall into one) * What is their maintenance schedule for swales (every X years they clear it out, every 2 years they remove large debris and reseed as needed?)?  If we know their targets, we can hold them to it, and look elsewhere in the neighborhood. Thanks for the news!  See everyone tonight.    Jeff --- On Mon, 4/25/11, Mary Miller <mpm_m...@yahoo.com> wrote:

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[Jan Sorby]

Mary,

Has utilities shown us an example of what the swale will look like? Will it be like the swale in from of Scott’s house at 1026 S Grant Street (across from Natalie). Scott said kids have fallen into the swale on bikes…into the beds of poison ivy. I would think neighbors would like to see an example before they sign on. . . We have been asking for an example all along.

Jan

 

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Hi everyone,

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[Stewart, David E]

Linda and I cannot attend the meeting tomorrow (today) because we have to be at Bloomington South for a voter registration thing (we are working the polls at the primary).

 

However, I think Mary's letter (and the following letters) are terrific and am glad that the existing stuff on the west side of Dunn is going to be maintained.

 

Dave Stewart

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[Mary Miller]

Phil Peden is drawing up complete plans and will show us as soon as they are ready. 

Mary

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