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Resident urges Waterbury to fund long-delayed Monson Avenue drainage project
Summary
A resident representing longtime homeowners asked the board to allocate funding for a drainage and street project at 110 Monson Avenue and Capital Avenue, saying paving in 2018 redirected stormwater into a driveway and left an elderly resident at risk; engineering staff said a designer was being hired but funds had not been released by the mayor's office.
At the Board of Aldermen meeting on Dec. 16, Sandy Genoa, speaking for Geraldine and Jaro Genoa of 110 Monson Avenue, asked the board to approve funding and start a long-delayed street and drainage project.
Genoa said the street was paved in 2018 and the repaving left the roadway pitched so water flows into her in-laws’ driveway, causing recurring flooding. She told the board she had photographs and videos documenting the problem and said attempts to share that evidence with city staff had not produced a timely fix. Genoa read a December 2022 message from Norine Brady in the city engineering traffic division that said a designer was being hired; at the meeting she said the design hire still had not led to construction and that funds had been reallocated to another project.
Genoa stressed the human stakes: her in-laws have lived at the address for 58 years, pay taxes, and an 84-year-old man at the property is “very sickly,” she said, warning that limited emergency access could be life-threatening if the street remains impassable.
City response in the meeting: Genoa said she had spoken with Roy Kavanaugh (city engineer) and that Kavanaugh had told her plans were in process but the mayor's office had not yet approved funds for construction. The transcript records that engineering staff inspected the property; Genoa asked the board to allocate funds and asked for active follow-up from the mayor’s office and the street department.
Why it matters: The request combines aging infrastructure, potential public-safety risk for a vulnerable resident, and a multi-year delay between design-stage work and construction funding. If the street limits emergency access it raises immediate safety concerns that the board may prioritize.
Provenance: The appeal and the cited correspondence with Norine Brady and Roy Kavanaugh were presented during the public comment period (SEG 164–SEG 259).
