04-09-2017, 12:08 AM
(04-08-2017, 09:02 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: Probably a confluence of factors: the massive change the drainage pattern from the adjoining property, the infill of the drainage ditch for use as a base of the hydro trucks, saturated soil, and heavy rain events.
I ran through there with pushing our jogging stroller and was quite surprised at how deep it was. It's persisted a long time too. Had that been a major road it would have led the news and the city would have had crews out right away.
There's another spot further to the south near the opening to Cherry st that seems to flood more frequently and deeper lately, but I can't seem to figure out what has changed in ghe nearby drainage to cause this to happen.
The section near Cherry St. has flooded every year I've been using the trail. That's nothing new (although, it is another good example of double standards, such a situation would not be allowed to persist for, I assume, the entire time the trail has existed).
Given that the drainage has been changed, we will have to wait to see how big a problem is, but if it is a problem, it's quite frustrating that they would just fill in the drainage causing this problem for the trail. Such a situation would never even be contemplated on a road.