Monday, April 16, 2007
Water Water Everywhere
The Fairfield Police and Fire Departments were busy all night with flooded basements threatening electrical service, stranded motorists in deep puddles and lots of closed roads. Predictions are for more rain today. What was your experience? Where are the spots in town that are always affected by heavy rain?
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There are many new spots in town that flodd and the old ones that flooded in the past flood more now. When you tear down a house, build bigger and pave the lot the only place water has to go is down.
This is more of Flatto's doing to raise tax revenue and now we are paying for it through a poorer quality environmment and taxtion for new drainage systems. Flatto stays in office because all the fat cats that made money off of the teardowns give to his campaigns. You know the names.
Give us a break whomever made comment. if the flood is now flatto's fault, so is the sun!
PS-hasn't flatto fought more developers than any 1st selectman in town history?
A dear friend lives off Kings Highway by I-95 and has suffered several evacuations from her home in the past year. Their home has taken on 4-5 feet of water each time, making it uninhabitable. They return to muck out, bleach, throw out more belongings, and then attempt to continue a normal life again. Their young daughters are understandably terrified anytime it rains and do not comprehend why they keep having to leave their house. The Rooster River debacle continues to cause this undeserved, unacceptable suffering. This family, and others in the area, cannot live this way. They are faithful taxpayers and dignified citizens just like anyone else, and they cannot wait for months for assistance. They need help, and now. This message is intended to spread the word of their plight throughout Fairfield so that everyone knows what is happening to our friends and neighbors.
I made the comment at 11:31. There is no more rain in Fairfield now than there was 20 years ago but there is more hard surface so more water runs off and it runs downhill faster too. This has nothing to do with the sun, the moon, the stars or Al Gore. Flatto loves developers and developers love him - just check out his campaign contributors over the years and look at the town's changing landscape whiel he's been in office and while his town attorney has been advising the land abuse boards. And look at all the tax money we now have to spend for the needed "emergency" drainage measures because the infrastucture in place in town can't handle the development they have allowed.
And a note to the editor, if you don't want anonymous comments then you should remove the option - blogger allows you to do that. And all of that said, eventhough I have nothing to hide I don't know how you know I am who I say I am. It shouldn't matter who is saying what on a blog and anonymous comments should be acceptable. Most reporters like the idea of anonymous sources so I would think the blog would respect that.
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