I wrote a while ago about the damage to my neighbor across the street when the culvert at our corner failed during the large rain storm a few months now. Little could be done due to the large snow storms that dumped too much “stuff” to even work on the road damage that so ripped up the street that the underground utilities were exposed.
The snow is now gone but the damage remains. Yesterday, I decided to “walk the damage” and make a video recording of it and that is below. However, I failed to mention, on the video, the immense amount of dirt and stone from both the road and the scouring of her private property (which is below the level of the town’s road) deposited all over her front yard and driveway by the rushing water.
Sidenote: My wife reminded me that our neighbor had to get a front-end loader to remove the large 2-foot pile of mud that was in front of her garage (the small remnants of which are shown in the video – I ended up “cleaning it up” as I helped out with shoveling and snowblowing her driveway this winter).
This was in addition to the damage done to her backyard including the collapsing of an outbuilding by the “mud push” hammered down the swale.
Selectmen’s meeting on this is tonite. Chan Eddy came out soon after this was brought to their attention. A member of the DPW came out a week or so ago to take and look and Kevin Hayes, Selectboard chair, recently came out to view the end results of the malfunctioning culvert.
