RE: [WardFive] Re: [ward5] McDuffie adamant about emergency funds as Bloomingdale floods By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times Monday, September 3, 2012

Just a few quick points on this great email by Rob.

 

First, Rob most folks don’t realize that the golf course is actually federal park land and it isn’t that simple for us to have the kids from our local schools using it, even though it should be a bigger effort to have more of them out there playing golf.

 

Now to your other issue about the flooding.  There are several issues dealing which need to be addressed in addition to development concerns.  One of the biggest issues is that there seems to be a back log of water in this area which then exits at this low point.  The city needs to work with DC Water (WASA) to figure out if there is a pumping issue or a better draining issue.  While I know they are not something pleasant to look at it may be time that we consider putting one of those small runoff ponds in the ward to catch the water runoff so that it doesn’t filter directly into the street which it is doing now.  I’m not exactly sure where we would have the space to do so but it may be a good option to examine as this is a growing issue.  In addition we need to also look at possibly expanding the sewer system in this area as we know that gravity is one of the key factors as this is a low point, but we need to figure out how we may be able to redirect it in a way which some of this water is split up.

 

Eric J. Jones, MSF

ejjones.threed@gmail.com

 

 

 

P    Please consider the environment before printing this email.

 

 

From: wardfive@googlegroups.com [mailto:wardfive@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rob
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 11:33 AM
To: ward5@yahoogroups.com; Ward 5 Google Groups
Subject: [WardFive] Re: [ward5] McDuffie adamant about emergency funds as Bloomingdale floods By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times Monday, September 3, 2012

 

Good Morning,

 

They should have some emergency funding for the residents Bloomingdale and surrounding areas that are dealing with this.  This is a dangerous issue and diseases can come into play because of it. 

 

Here are some solutions.

 

1.  Put Screens around all of the current Drainage to stop any further issues/clogging.  Those should be done all over the City.

 

2.  Put some tracking devices in something into various areas that can be followed by radio signal and see if there is a clog somewhere.  Start with a water bottle and then go bigger.

 

3. Get a list of things done within the last 2 years and see what different was done and start working backwards from there.

 

4.  Pay attention to those recent developments and see what was if anything was cut off and redirected when development was done and never reopened.  

 

INFRASTRUCTURE - Can't say this enough!!! 

 

Kenyan needs to put out a list of things that they are doing - all the agencies - he can't do anything but use a phone or have a meeting.  They should stop stressing the Man other than to demand the City's action plan and maybe it will trigger some common sense ideas.  I am guessing that something as simple as a tracking device has not yet been launched.  Stop telling us that they are working on it -- as a community, we deserve to know WHAT they are doing.

 

I never understood how so many and such large developments could go up so quickly.  Inspections got to be an interesting thing to Watch!! 

 

And yes - Kenyan needs to respond to the Carbarn issue just as demanding as he is responding to this and to deal with the Librarians, School Closings and Selling off of our Schools to developers with the same strength - Especially our Spingarm, Young, Browne and Phelps Campus Setting - We need a School Campus overlooking and utilizing a Golf Course.

 

Rob Ramson

 

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:57 AM, KPW <WKPW3@aol.com> wrote:

 

fewer voters, less clout in spingarn area

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From: Debbie Smith-Steiner <DLSmith112@msn.com>
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Sent: Tue, Sep 4, 2012 10:53 am
Subject: RE: [ward5] McDuffie adamant about emergency funds as Bloomingdale floods By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times Monday, September 3, 2012

 

What about the carbarn issue.  I guess that is not important?


Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed. Booker T. Washington
 

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To: ward5@yahoogroups.com
From: WKPW3@aol.com
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:44:31 -0400
Subject: [ward5] McDuffie adamant about emergency funds as Bloomingdale floods By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times Monday, September 3, 2012

 

 

 

Excerpt from article for those that want to know exactly where Bloomingdale is

Bloomingdale is an increasingly popular neighborhood south of McMillan Reservoir and north of Florida Avenue. It abuts North Capitol Street on its eastern edge and is bisected by Rhode Island Avenue, a main corridor that was plagued by rushing water and stranded vehicles during bouts of rainfall in late July.

 

McDuffie adamant about emergency funds as Bloomingdale floods

By Tom Howell Jr.

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The Washington Times

Monday, September 3, 2012

 

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A D.C. lawmaker is calling on the city to establish an emergency relief fund for residents of the Bloomingdale neighborhood reeling from flood damage after fierce rains backed up their outdated sewer once again during the Labor Day weekend.

 

Council member Kenyan McDuffie, Ward 5 Democrat, said water rushed under doors and stranded motorists on Rhode Island Avenue Northwest while raw sewage bubbled up through toilets and drains in homes, a nightmarish and all-too-frequent occurrence for his constituents this summer.

 

“No one should have to live like that,” he said.

 

Standing water along Rhode Island Avenue reached the tops of cars’ wheels on Sunday evening and Metro had to suspend service on its Green and Yellow lines between Georgia Avenue-Petworth and Mount Vernon Square stations because of flooding near the Shaw-Howard University station. At about 9 p.m., the Metropolitan Police Department assisted with temporary road closures and helped stranded motorists along Rhode Island Avenue and North Capitol Street, spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump said.

 

Mr. McDuffie said he is calling on all relevant agencies, particularly the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority and the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, to bring forward all of their resources and set aside funding for immediate relief to residents in the affected areas. He also said the city should request financial assistance from the federal government, even though it is not a citywide problem.

 

“You’ve got residents who have legitimate flood-damage claims,” he said. “They don’t need [help] next week, next month — they need it now.”

 

Bloomingdale is an increasingly popular neighborhood south of McMillan Reservoir and north of Florida Avenue. It abuts North Capitol Street on its eastern edge and is bisected by Rhode Island Avenue, a main corridor that was plagued by rushing water and stranded vehicles during bouts of rainfall in late July.

 

Mr. McDuffie called for an “all-hands-on-deck” effort to stem the flooding after the July storms, prompting Mayor Vincent C. Gray to assemble a task force to study the problem and report its findings by Dec. 31.
But now the lawmaker is ramping up his rhetoric.

 

On Monday he called for a new study by independent engineers to see what the city and residents can do in the short term before they are hit by flooding once more. Some residents spent thousands of dollars to install back-flow preventers in their homes — plumbing devices that keep sewage from backing up during storms — only to experience flooding again Sunday night, he said.

 

WASA’s General Manager George Hawkins said flooding can occur in numerous ways. His own agency is set to release its findings on the neighborhood’s engineering challenges in the coming week, although he is fine with an independent review.

 

He said crews cleaned storm water drains on Friday in anticipation of the remnants from Hurricane Isaac coming over the weekend. But once again, the area was hit by “an enormous amount of rain in a small amount of time.”

 

“This is absolutely a terrible outcome, and we’re doing everything we can to try and solve [the problem],” he said.

 

The sewer system that serves the neighborhood was installed in the late 19th century as a combined sewer, in which wastewater from homes and stormwater flows into the same pipe, according to WASA. Mr. Hawkins said Monday the pipe along Florida Avenue is 9 feet in diameter and “just not big enough to hold this kind of flow.”

 

The system should be remedied as part of the Clean Rivers Project, “a system of tunnels, sewers and other diversion structures to control and capture overflow throughout the city,” according to WASA. But the multistage project will not be completed until 2025.

 

“You’ve got a legitimate project in the works,” Mr. McDuffie said. “But residents can’t wait 13 years.”
Mr. Gray’s spokesman, Pedro Ribeiro, said Monday tha the would have to confer with the mayor, who is in Charlotte, N.C., for the Democratic National Convention, before commenting on a possible relief fund for Bloomingdale residents.

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