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Posted: Thu Jan 8th, 2009 10:42 am |
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| What the heck is a back flow thingy?
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ron_hunsicker
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Posted: Sat Nov 29th, 2008 04:26 pm |
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| P.S. Thank you for your interest and have a very blessed holiday season!
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ron_hunsicker
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Posted: Sat Nov 29th, 2008 04:24 pm |
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Duly noted...the back flow preventer replacement was initiated at the request of property owners at the river end of Hubbard...I presume them to be some, if not all, owners of the properties referenced in your analysis. Not having heard otherwise, it was assumed by council that there was consenus, if not unanominity, on the need for the project or council would not have put forth the time and effort in moving it forward. Obviously, the property owners in that area are not in agreement.
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Posted: Sun Nov 23rd, 2008 07:22 pm |
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The riverfront building at 190 Hubbard required several large truckloads of concrete to stabilize the foundation a few years ago, and the building on the adjacent riverfront property collapsed and was demolished. Both are/were very old structures, and a post hoc analysis of contributing factors would certainly be indeterminant. Nonetheless, reinstituting a backflow prevention valve because one previously existed, without questioning the relative merits, seems imprudent.
The water coming up through the drain only attains a depth of a few inches on Hubbard before it merges with the water coming over the banks of the Murderkill at the town dock, and subsequent breaches-(casual, but long-term, observation.) These few inches of water is the only level of protection the new valve might offer.
The failure of the previous backflow valve didn't create the problem of high-water on Hubbard, and replacing it doesn't address the problem.
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ron_hunsicker
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Posted: Fri Nov 21st, 2008 06:35 pm |
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Thank you so much for your interest and support. It is my understanding that installation of a new backflow preventer has been before Council off and on ever since the old one stopped functioning. It is my understanding that the old one eventually became clogged with marine life, became inoperable, and eventually rusted away. Remnants still remain. Should funding be approved, Council will merely be removing the remnants of what was there and replacing it with a new one. Thus far, I have not received any information that when the original backflow preventer was in place it intensified any river scouring affects on the river front properties. This is an open forum...should anyone have such knowledge please respond to Council, in writing, preferably with factual evidence, so they may take that into consideration should funding be approved.
Thank you again for your support and have a blessed day!
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Posted: Fri Nov 21st, 2008 01:24 am |
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| Good luck with the funding and success of this project. As the photos show, the water in the streets is not only the result of tidal waters backing up through the overflow, the tide is actually above the river banks of the Murderkill at the end of Hubbard. Absent a backflow that permits the water to simply "rise in the streets", when the tide overflows the banks of the Murderkill, will there not be a "wave" of water down the street, resulting in not only the same depth of water we now experience, but possibly severe scouring and erosion of structural supports of riverfront properties?
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ronaldhunsicker
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Posted: Mon Nov 17th, 2008 03:24 pm |
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| Here is letter sent for legislative funding of this project.... Attachment: Binder1.pdf (Downloaded 15 times)
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