Town DPW makes significant flood mitigation efforts in various neighborhoods.
TROUBLESOME BROOK IN EDGEMONT and MANHATTAN BROOK IN FAIRVIEW AND OTHER WATERWAYS MAY CAUSE LESS TROUBLE NOW.
Town DPW makes significant flood mitigation efforts in various neighborhoods.
Town residents who have suffered decades of flooding issues with storm overflow from the Troublesome Brook in Edgemont, have already seen an improvement in conditions after this summer’s mitigation work.
“Without question,” agreed resident Robert Dilorenzo who praised the project that is nearly completed.
In the aftermath of Ida, the Department of Public Works received many urgent requests for flooding assistance, some of which persist through every substantial rainfall. The Edgemont area of Greenburgh has seen problems from the Troublesome Brook for over 60 years.
The Town Board approved in this year’s budget funding allocated to flood mitigation, which enabled the DPW to put several essential projects out to bid. Morano Brothers Inc. won the contract to widen the channel along Central Avenue most impacting the Greenville Fire Department, Curry Chevrolet, and about six residences along Winthrop and Clarendon Road.
The work increased the area of water storage and decreased it being prone to clogging.
Another problem area surrounds Manhattan Brook, especially behind the Theodore D. Young Community Center. Twice they’ve lost their gym floor and after Hurricane Ida the pool was shut down when it filled with muddy water. In recent weeks, Morano crews cleaned out obstructions and silting up of the culverts alongside 119 and the Crossroads Shopping Center. Here again, Town engineers have seen improvements with recent rainfall that would have flooded the area otherwise.
Finally, another area that received a clearing out is the tributary by the County Center that leads to the Bronx River. Six neighbors who live on Old Kensico Road have been most directly impacted.
In the spring, the Town filed a multi-million dollar FEMA grant in the hopes of getting a handful of houses in the Babbitt Court neighborhood of Elmsford who suffer from Saw Mill River overflow regularly lifted to a higher elevation. The grant awards won’t be announced until Spring 2023.
“The work we have been doing will substantially improve the quality of life for many residents.. Further work for the Troublesome area may come following an engineering study underway from Woodard & Curran environmental engineering consultant firm.
We have substantial areas around town with flooding problems. Resolving all the flooding problems in town will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Our strategy is to include in upcoming annual budgets funds for flood control initiatives. We will also reach out to Westchester County, NYS and the federal government for grants and will gradually try to address problems in different neighborhoods of town.
PAUL FEINER
Greenburgh Town Supervisor
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