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Resident raises pothole and detention-pond maintenance concerns at Stratford public forum
Summary
A resident urged the Town of Stratford to repair deep potholes and clean detention ponds that he said have not been maintained in years, and asked for follow-up from the mayor's office and DPW.
Seth Levine, a Birch Place resident, used the May 12 public forum to press the Town of Stratford for road and stormwater maintenance, citing an 8-inch-deep pothole on Birch Place and detention ponds near Brewster Pond that he said have not been cleaned in five years.
Levine said he had been in consultation with "the honorable Mr. Green" and the mayor's office about having a consultant inspect debris in the detention ponds but had not received a follow-up report a month after that contact. "They haven't been cleaned in the 5 years that I've lived here, and they really ought to be," Levine said.
Levine also said he has heard there are proposed budget increases for members of the mayor's administrative staff but said he had not seen the budget and asked that DPW be prioritized for routine maintenance. The transcript contains no council response, motion or vote on the maintenance requests.
Levine concluded by asking the council to have the detention ponds inspected and potholes repaired; no timeline or formal direction is recorded in the forum comments.
