In August 2018 Port Washington was hit by a huge rain storm in the middle of the night. Sound asleep we woke about 2:00 a.m. to someone pounding on our front door. It was a neighbor letting us know that the parking lot was flooding and maybe we could get our car out of the lower garage. Dave threw on some clothing and ran down the steps only to find about six feet of water in our garage.....no way to save the car or the other 20 parked on that level.
We all faced about a week of clean up, several weeks with no elevator, the purchase of a new car....quite the memorable event. In the months and three years following the condo board did a lot to find out why our garage flooded and to fix the pumps and do everything they could to assure homeowners this would never happen again. And the city had its own to-do-list.
The flood was as terrible as it was because a huge tree trunk floated down the raging "stream" next to the bike path plugging the entry to the culvert that should have directed most of the water under the park and into Lake Michigan. So, after months of discussion, a company was hired to install a trash rack at the culvert so any floating trash would be directed up and water could flow freely below it and out to the lake.
I walked Fenway today and glanced down at the trash rack. We've had several days of on-and-off much needed rain....nothing like the fast and furious 2018 storm, but still our little stream is much higher than normal. Water is running over rocks and up the side of the banks....but nothing too dramatic.
And the trash rack is doing its job!
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