(Municipal Operations Commissioner Paul Groody)
(File Photo)
Common Council is being asked by city staff to spend 30 million dollars next year on storm drainage to ease flooding on the west side and in Millidgeville.
The head of Municipal Operations Paul Groody says the weather has become stormier over the past 5 years and caused flooding in parts of the city other than the east side where it's normally expected.
Groody concedes the city suffers from what he calls an infrastructure deficit and the work being proposed would have to be done at some point in the future anyway.
Federal regulations now require the separation of catch basins and sanitary sewers to ease the flow of water.
Deputy Mayor Stephen Chase worries city water rates will escalate because of all the work that has to be done.
