Wicomico County Public Works is seeking cooperation from the public in preparing for potential heavy rainfall events that could impact the County over the next 2 weeks. With drainage becoming an issue due to ground that is already saturated, Public Works will be working to clear catch basins and ditches while also sweeping roads to remove loose debris to clear areas so water can enter and flow through the county drainage system efficiently.
We are seeking help from the public to inspect and clear any drainage ditches and swales on their property to insure that proper drainage can occur by removing limbs, leaves, grass clippings or any other debris that can slow or stop the flow of water. Also communities with stormwater ponds are urged to inspect their ponds for floating debris while inspecting and clearing discharge and overflow structures of debris that could have been deposited from previous storms.
With over 700 miles of County roads to maintain all community assistance is appreciated to reduce the potential for flooding in the County.
How about you clean out ditches and were applicable, you make them wider and or deeper? And where there are no ditches, and where applicable, put a ditch there...
I see so many houses with no ditches but have a small under-drain pipe under their driveway, for what??? If there are no ditches or any conveyance of water, why are they needed??? I also see places where ditches can be placed and help but nope won't put any in...
Funny how they wait until there might be a bad storm with flooding before they decide to clean up stuff and clear inlets... Yet any other time you see lots of county workers and city workers, just riding around or just siting in their trucks in a parking lot doing nothing... Or you have 6 guys watching 2 guys do actual work!!!!
Sounds like more help should be required. I thought they used Prison workers too. Maybe they can get more or else put those to work who are unemployed.
If they were properly maintained by those who are paid well to do so, then there would be any concern now would there? After all, that's why we're told we need big government. If I have to do their job in addition to my own, then I better be getting a tax credit!!!
They need to get the supervisors off their ass and supervise these people. The last two times they cut one side of the ditch in front of my house they then rode by three more times looking at the grass they didn't cut. I also observed them on break three times in 1 hour. It was the same person and tractor on three different roads within 2 miles of the first break. Appears there is a supervisory problem allowing the workers to do what they want.
People won't take personal responsibility for private ditches..... they think the county is responsible for everything. You can't just make ditches deeper, it doesn't work that way. How about people that live on streams/branches walk along them and clean them up. They are private. It doesn't matter how well a ditch is clean if it depends on someone else's that isn't to flow properly.
I lived on Campground Rd approx. 1000 yards from the Upper Ferry for almost ten years. My house has County owned ditches that run down the side and across the back of my property. These ditches are intended to run to the river as our course of drainage. NOT once since I've lived there has the County ever cleaned them out or done any maintenance. My neighbors that have lived there longer than I concur with what I've experienced. So now with no time available....you start to worry? What a joke!
Willards on Division St .floods EVERYTIME it rains. The last rainfall I had 18 inches of water in my yard at 7357 Division st.I have been here for over 30 years and never once have I ever seen them clean these ditches out. They cut the weeds but they never clean out the ditches. And I have pictures to prove how my yard my sheds and my property flood because of the lack of maintenance on the ditches throughout the town of Willards. This is an emergency situation and I have the pictures to prove just how bad it really is.
How about you clean out ditches and were applicable, you make them wider and or deeper? And where there are no ditches, and where applicable, put a ditch there...
ReplyDeleteI see so many houses with no ditches but have a small under-drain pipe under their driveway, for what??? If there are no ditches or any conveyance of water, why are they needed??? I also see places where ditches can be placed and help but nope won't put any in...
Funny how they wait until there might be a bad storm with flooding before they decide to clean up stuff and clear inlets... Yet any other time you see lots of county workers and city workers, just riding around or just siting in their trucks in a parking lot doing nothing... Or you have 6 guys watching 2 guys do actual work!!!!
So if we have to do their jobs, do we get some of their pay?
ReplyDeletehow about we get a DITCH on LEvin Deshielle. HIGHLY dangerous - and the farmer runoff is getting onto OTHER peoples property.
ReplyDeleteCatchpenny Rd in Quantico keeps flooding, submit requests for it to be checked and nothing happened.
ReplyDeleteHad County Roads employees been advised by leaders in the past, this would not be such a huge job with a deadline.
ReplyDeleteI've lived on this road 15 years and not once have they dug the ditches out. Not once.
ReplyDeleteSounds like more help should be
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I thought they used Prison workers
too. Maybe they can get more or
else put those to work who are
unemployed.
If they were properly maintained by those who are paid well to do so, then there would be any concern now would there? After all, that's why we're told we need big government. If I have to do their job in addition to my own, then I better be getting a tax credit!!!
ReplyDeleteMaybe we can pay more people to do the jobs but at the same time complain about the taxes.
ReplyDeleteThey need to get the supervisors off their ass and supervise these people. The last two times they cut one side of the ditch in front of my house they then rode by three more times looking at the grass they didn't cut. I also observed them on break three times in 1 hour. It was the same person and tractor on three different roads within 2 miles of the first break. Appears there is a supervisory problem allowing the workers to do what they want.
ReplyDeleteHow about cutting the grass "on the county roads" instead of asking us to do what we pay you to do.
ReplyDeleteMy neighbor and I, eventually had to dig our own.
ReplyDeleteDamn....Woodcrest, Old Ocean City road at Beaver Run School, Lois Ave, Granada, Malta, Kenliworth all flooded last rain event!!!!
ReplyDeletePeople won't take personal responsibility for private ditches..... they think the county is responsible for everything. You can't just make ditches deeper, it doesn't work that way. How about people that live on streams/branches walk along them and clean them up. They are private. It doesn't matter how well a ditch is clean if it depends on someone else's that isn't to flow properly.
ReplyDeleteI lived on Campground Rd approx. 1000 yards from the Upper Ferry for almost ten years. My house has County owned ditches that run down the side and across the back of my property. These ditches are intended to run to the river as our course of drainage. NOT once since I've lived there has the County ever cleaned them out or done any maintenance. My neighbors that have lived there longer than I concur with what I've experienced. So now with no time available....you start to worry? What a joke!
ReplyDelete6:43.....better get off the blog so you won't be late for work with the County!
ReplyDeleteWillards on Division St .floods EVERYTIME it rains. The last rainfall I had 18 inches of water in my yard at 7357 Division st.I have been here for over 30 years and never once have I ever seen them clean these ditches out. They cut the weeds but they never clean out the ditches. And I have pictures to prove how my yard my sheds and my property flood because of the lack of maintenance on the ditches throughout the town of Willards. This is an emergency situation and I have the pictures to prove just how bad it really is.
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