11-01-2018, 10:33 PM
(11-01-2018, 09:46 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Yeah, if they had a storm drain they could dump into, that would work, the problem is grading obviously water only flows downhill, the ponding occurs at a low point, I'm not sure if they could grade it sufficiently to get it to too Cherry, if there is a storm drain there.
I checked that possibility out on my way home. I think they could make it work. It is only 18m from the west side of the trail to the curb on Cherry and IHT ROW and the Cherry St ROW and adjoining so there would be no other property owners involved. There are no catch basins at the end of the circle on Cherry, they are on the east side of the circle, but the slope on Cherry continues to the east so even if a drain pipe just dumped directly on to Cherry it would find its way in to the SWM system eventually - whether it was designed to take additional flow is another question.
I think the other problem would be that they'd probably have to drain the water across the new sidewalk, so basically moving the water from one active transportation route to another.
As for the dead tree, I travel that trail almost daily I never saw it planted. I kept wondering when they were going to come back and finish planting. It looked like it just got forgotten by the crew.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.