This has been a pattern long before Mr. Terpenny’s “1000 Year Event” (that isn’t substantiated by National Weather Service data). This time flooding was prevented because yours truly was out in the rain shoveling up the bushels of asphalt, rock, gravel, and red clay runoff that was clogging the drains. Water running off Depot street filled the drain at the back of the Emporium, running under the railroad track to the point that the discharge line from the roof of the Emporium was covered and a water spout over 4 feet high was coming out of where the roof drain pipe went into that underground pipe.
A call was made to the Town of Christiansburg, perhaps they will finally be convinced that there is a problem with drainage in this section of the road. Perhaps they will admit that runoff coming from up the hill is filling the drains with mud, sand, gravel, and rocks thus reducing the capacity of an already challenged system. Maybe not. Maybe they will simply continue to tell me that I am stupid and don’t know a thing about stormwater. Maybe they will just laugh and go on about their business. A Town Engineer did come out and look and just now, sandbags appeared in order to try to protect the Emporium. Fortunately, there was enough gravel, mud, sand, etc filling the roadway that in cleaning out the drains at the Emporium, I had enough to build a dam in front of the Depot to block some of the new flooding happening there.
Well, back to shoveling and moving water. Photos will follow:)
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January 5, 2010 at 3:07 pm
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