4 MARCH 15, 2018 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Flooded Glendale street frustrates residents
therefore there is only one catch basin
on the stretch from 73rd Place to 71st
Place. A complete reconstruction of
the road would be the best solution,
Giordano said, and simply resurfacing
the road might not help.
“I think the reason that the Department
of Transportation hasn’t wanted
BY RYAN KELLEY
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Whenever it rains, no matter
how much falls, a section of
Edsall Avenue in Glendale
between 71st Place and 73rd Place
becomes fl ooded, and sometimes the
puddles stay for several days.
Residents have complained about
the fl ooding to Community Board 5
and various city agencies for years,
according to Middle Village resident
Anthony Russo, and heavy rainfall in
February led to renewed conversations
in Glendale groups on Facebook
about the overlooked street.
“It has been fl ooding for the last
20 years and nothing ever gets done
there,” Russo said in a message to the
Ridgewood Times.
The problem, according to Community
Board 5 District Manager Gary Giordano,
is that there is no short-term fi x
for the fl ooding that the Department of
Transportation (DOT) is willing to undertake.
Giordano said he had representatives
from the DOT and Department
of Environmental Preservation (DEP)
come to the site, and Assemblyman
Mike Miller organized a visit as well.
The DEP told Giordano that there
is no sewer along Edsall Avenue,
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to resurface that street is because they
worry about the fact that it will push the
stormwater at the people’s houses that
front on Edsall Avenue,” Giordano said.
Board 5 currently has the Edsall
Avenue fl ooding issue ranked ninth
on its list of 36 budget requests for
the fi scal year 2019. Giordano said that
the response received in the mayor’s
preliminary budget is that “Capital
funding restraints, project capacity
and citywide priorities preclude this
project at this time.”
The issue is on Councilman Robert
Holden’s radar as well, and he said he is
working with the DEP to come up with
a solution.
“Earlier this week, a representative
with DEP informed us that it will be sending
the Bureau of Water and Sewer Operations
to investigate the best way to stop
the fl ooding,” Holden said in an emailed
statement. “We’ve been following up
with the issue and will continue to work
with DEP until the problem is resolved.”
Meanwhile in southeast Queens,
where a similar problem is much more
widespread, a $21.8 million project in
St. Albans is underway to bring relief
to a fl ood-prone area along Lucas Street.
More than three-quarters of a mile of
new storm sewers were installed alongside
older storm sewers to expand the
drainage capacity in the area. Twenty
one new catch basins were installed
and an additional 38 were replaced
along the length of the project area.
Funded by the DEP, the project is
part of the city’s $1.9 billion eff ort to
reduce fl ooding and upgrade infrastructure
in southeast Queens over
the next 10 years.
Photo courtesy of Anthony Russo
Flooding on Edsall Avenue in Glendale during a rain storm.
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