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Residents, council press city for faster fixes after repeated South Lorain flooding
Summary
After repeated rain events and several recent floods, residents and council members urged a mix of more aggressive maintenance, targeted capital work and pilot homeowner programs; city staff described catch‑basin cleaning rotations, CityWorks tracking and long‑term capacity limits on storm design.
Residents and council members pressed city staff at a committee meeting to accelerate work after repeated street and basement flooding in South Lorain and other older neighborhoods.
Residents described repeated basement damage and high cleanup costs, saying some homes flood on modest rainfall and that longtime problems have not been solved. Several residents and council members said debris, grass clippings and grease clog catch basins and that localized cleaning ahead of storms reduced repeat flooding in targeted areas.
City engineers and the utilities director described current and planned work: a memo documenting the June 17 storm and rain‑gauge data, a CityWorks asset‑management record of hundreds of closed sewer work…
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