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Port Jervis resident urges city action after repeated basement flooding
Summary
Laura Meyer of Port Jervis' 3rd Ward told the council she has suffered repeated basement flooding linked to historic buried streams and called for the city to act; she said a previously discussed retention-pond site on North Orange Street is under consideration and asked what protections or costs residents should expect.
Laura Meyer, a Port Jervis resident in the city's 3rd Ward, told the City Council during public comment that her home has suffered repeated basement flooding and called on the city to take protective action. Meyer said historic decisions to bury streams under 24-inch storm sewer pipes placed a storm drain on her Lincoln Street property.
Meyer described the history in detail: she said Hurricane Diane in 1955 led to burying local brooks in 1956 and that, after she bought her house in December 2010 and moved in August 2011, Hurricane…
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