Back in January, I reported on the flooding caused by a blocked culvert that destroyed my neighbor’s front & back yards. While the town has worked diligently to right the wrong done to her property, the rainy weather hasn’t help.
They cleared out most of the first culvert you will see in the video, greatly enlarged it, cut down the overhanging tree limbs, removed a bunch of trees, and did work on the “inflows” on both sides of Belknap Mtn.Rd that dump into it.
Across the street, after fixing the asphalt, the town also re-dug the outflow culvert’s runoff area and laid in a lot of rip-rac (sharp-edged rocks) to bolster the banks. They also remove a bunch of trees at the same time.
Then, as you will see me peering through the foliage to see the final out culvert dumping into the swale that carries the water out to the conservation land behind the houses.
Today during the intense rain storm, the first culvert came close to overflowing again (a mere inch or two more and the road would have been overflowed. Now other hydrological issues have come to the fore in that perhaps some of the fire ponds located at a higher elevation may have failed. Thus, they may be playing a root problem that is being expressed right down by my house. And this is all because, here in central NH, it’s been pretty much raining since May.
Just call us Seattle East. Sheesh…
That was yesterday. Today, I went back over to see what today’s sunny day brought:
It shows, however, that the Town has other issues to fix after the tremendous rains…
