Let's go Torrington!!

So after the rain on Oct 4th I came home to find my yard flooded and water in my basement again. Here are the emails from the City of Torrington about this issue. My favorite part is "The lack of slope and the low reveal on the driveway apron is contributing to the water..." When Holley Place was torn up and repaved, they put in a new reveal.

From: Timothy Waldron
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 8:31 AM
To: Ed Pescatore
Cc: Ryan Bingham; Matt Walsh; Ed Nuzenski; Bob Lizotte; Ed Fabbri
Subject: RE: Holley Place drainage issue

Good Morning Ed,

After conferring with the Engineering department, it appears that the issue is not with the storm drain however but with the condition of the driveway. The lack of slope and the low reveal on the driveway apron is contributing to the water being allowed to simply stream from the road directly to your driveway and yard beyond. In addition, it is felt that the wheel rut area that exists on the driveway should be built up with gravel to keep the water out of the driveway as well.

Certainly when we experience heavy levels of rain as we have over the past year or so this amount of water will always find a place to go, however making adjustments to your driveway will certainly help to curtail this.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Thanks,

Tim

Tim Waldron
Office of the Mayor
P: 860.489.2228
F: 860.489.2541

From: Ed Pescatore
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 7:18 PM
To: Timothy Waldron; Bob Lizotte; Ed Fabbri
Cc: Ryan Bingham; Matt Walsh; Ed Nuzenski
Subject: Holley Place drainage issue

In the rain tonight the storm drain on Holley Place failed again and when I got home I found my backyard flooded and going into my basement.

Can we please get together and try to get this resolved?

So with all the rain we had on Friday the 9, Highland Ave flooded down Holley Place and into my back yard. There was 9 inches of water in my back yard. This issue is not getting addresses at all. I have video of regular rain runoff coming down Highland Ave and turning down Holley Place. Should the catch storm drains be catching this before is gets to Holley Place?

5 years later and nothing has been done.

This seems like an ACTUAL issue unlike most crap on here