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“The problem is the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has no money for storm sewer improvements”

W'field resident askes for help to find a solution to harmful storm water By KRISTIN REICHARDT Staff Writer WAYNESFIELD -- Accompanied by her tears, her daughters and a poster board filled with photographs of ... via Wapakoneta Daily News

[Georgia Payne]

i WANT TO THANK THE CITY COUNCIL FOR SUPPORTING MY DAUGHTER, PENNY COOK, IN THE MATTER OF THE FLODDING OF HER HOUSE. THE COMMITMENT WAS MADE THAT THEY WOULD ASSET THE PROBLEM THE VERY NEXT DAY IF IT DID NOT SNOW AND GIVE HER A TEMPORARY FIX TO THE PROBLEM UNTIL SOMETHING PERMANENT COULD BE DONE. THIS IS A COMMITMENT THAT HOPEFULLY IS BEING FOLLWOING THROUGH WITH.

i ALSO WANT TO THANK THE WAPAKONETA DAILY NEWS, WHO SO KINDLY DID THE WRITE UP OF PENNY'S STORY, TO DO A FOLLOW UP WITH HER AND CONTINUE TO KEEP HER STORY GOING UNTIL ALL THAT HAS BEEN PROMISED IS MET.

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MARY CAROLL, WHO HELPED PENNY WITH INFORMATION AND DIRECTION IN BRINGING HER PROBLEM TO THE ATTENTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF WAYNESFIELD.

NOW THAT PROMISES HAVE BEEN MADE, MY NEXT QUESTION IS WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE $10,000 TO #12,000 DAMAGE TO MY DAUGHTER'S HOUSE?

THE REASON WHY I BRING THIS MATTER UP IS BECAUSE A FEW YEARS BACK WHEN MARY CAROLL SENT A PETITION AROUND TO HAVE THE DRAINAGE FIXED ON OHIO STREET THEN AND TOOK THE PETITION TO THE CITY COUCIL NOTHING WAS DONE. AT THAT TIME PENNY SIGNED THE PETITION DUE TO THERE WAS SOME DAMAGE DONE TO THE FIRST LEVEL OF HER HOUSE. THE DAMAGE HAS NOW BECOME QUITE COSTLY. SO AGAIN I ASK. WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IS IT TO REPAIR THE DAMAMGE?

[Georgia Payne]

I AM TRULY DISAPOINTED IN THE CITY COUNCIL. THE CITY COUNCIL STATED AT THE FEBRUARY MEEYING THAT IF IT DID NOT SNOW THEY WOULD HAVE AN ENGINEER COME OUT AND ASSESS HER FLOODING PROBLEM THE NEXT DAY. WELL NO ONE CAME THE NEXT DAY. WHY? BECCAUSE THEY HAD SOMEONE IN THE DARK OF NIGHT COME OUT AFTER THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING AND ASSESS MY DAUGHTER'S, PENNY COOK, FLOODING PROBLEM. iF THEY CAME MY DAUGHTER WAS NOT AWARE OF IT FOR THEY DID NOT EVEN BOTHER TO TALK WITH HER THAT NIGHT AND BESIDES HOW CAN ONE GIVE A TRUE ASSESSMENT WHEN IT WAS DARK.. IT WAS STATED THAT FAMMING-HOWEY WOULD DO THE ASSESSMENT OF HER PROPERTY. DID THEY CALL FANNING-HOWEY AFTER THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING THAT NIGHT AND REQUEST THEY MEET THEM AT THE PROPERTY?

WHO DID THE ASSESSMENT OF PENNY COOK'S PROPERTY?

FURTHER MORE THE CITY COUNCIL HAS STATED THAT IT IS NOT THEIR PROBLEM BECAUSE OF THE LOW LEVEL OF GROUND THAT PART OF HER HOUSE SITS ON.

COMMON SENSE WOULD TELL YOU THAT IF THEY HAD FIXED THE POOR WATER DRAINAGE SYSTEM A FEW YEARS BACK THEN THE WATER IN HER YARD WOULD HAVE HAD A PLACE TO PUT ITSELF, HER YARD WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN CONTINUALLY DEGRADED TO CAUSE SO MUCH DAMAMGE TO HER HOUSE.

WHERE IS MY DAUGHTER TODAY? TAKING OFF WORK TO BUY CONTAINERS FOR TWO SUB PUMPS, OF WHICH SHE WILL HAVE TO DIG DEEP DEEP HOLES TO PUT THEM IN, ALONG WITH HOSES, SKIRTING FOR THE ROOF AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE. WHERE WAS SJE YESTERDAY? SCRAPING MORE MUD OUT OF HER FAMILY ROOM, BATHROOM, LAUNDRTY ROOM AND CLOSE IN PORCH.

THIS WOMAN NEEDS HELP. THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE FLOODING PROBLEMS IN YOUR TOWN NEED HELP. HOW CAN YOU HELP?

CPMTACT YOUR CITY COUNCIL, CONTACT YOUR CNOGRESS PERSON, CONTACT THE MEDIA, CONTACT ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN TO GET THE CITY WATER SYSTEM FIXED

[Georgia Payne]

I HAVE A QUESTION FOR THE CITY COUNCIL? THEY HAVE STATED TO MY DAUGHTER TO TEMPORAIRLY FIX HER PROBLEM BY DIRECTING THE WATER TO RUN OUT INTO THE STREET. WITH THE TWO SUB PUMPS THAT SHE ALREADY HAS. WHERE DO THEY THINK THE WATER WILL GO THEN. RIGHT INTO A NEIGHBOR;S YARD WHO IS ALSO HAVE FLOODING PROBLEMS.

THIS IS NOT A SOLUTION. THIS IS ONLY THE BEST ANSWER THEY CAN COME UP WITH.

THEY NEED TO UPGRADE THE DRAINAGE SYSTEM AND FIX THE FLOODING PROBLEM SO THOSE WHO ARE TIREDLESSLY TRYING TO SAVE THEIR HOMES CAN HAVE A PEACE OF MIND.

[georgia payne]

UPDATE ON LACKING OPTIONS..........

RECENTLY MS COOK RECEIVED A LETTER FROM THE COMMISSIONERS IN REGARDS TO THREE COUNTIES, OF WHICH THE TOWN OF WAYNESFIELD, OHIO IS INCLUDED. THE LETTER STATED THAT THE COMMISSIONERS WANTEED HER, ALONG WITH THE OTHER RESIDENTS OF WAYNESFIELD, OHIO, TO PAY A FEE TO UPGRADE DRAIN STORMS IN THEIR TOWN. THE IRONY OF THIS IS THAT THERE ARE NO DRAIN STORMS ON MS COOK'S STREET. MS COOK CALL THE COMMISSIONERS AND STATED IT WAS UNFAIR DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE CITY COUNCIL WILL NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT HER FLOODING PROBLEM IN REFERENCE TO PUTTING IN A DRAINAGE SYSTEM ON HER STREET. MS COOK CALLED THE COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE AND RECEIVED NO POISTIVE FEEDBACK AND YET THE PERSON SHE TALKED TO TOLD HER TO HAVE A GOOD DAY.
HOW IS IT THAT MS COOK CAN HAVE A GOOD DAY WHEN EVERY DAY SHE GETS UP AND PUTS A HARD DAY OF WORK IN ONLY TO WORRY IF SHE WILL COME HOME TO MORE FLOODING IN HER HOUSE.

MS COOK HAS HAD SEVERAL EXPERIENCE PEOPLE OUT TO ASSESS HER FLOODING SITUATION AND THE END RESULTS WERE: NO LANDSCAPING OR NO WALL PROOF PROTECTION WOULD RESOLVE HER PROBLEM UNTIL THERE IS A PROPER DRAINAGE SYSTEM PUT IN ON HER STREET.

WHEN MS COOK BOUGHT THE HOUSE SHE WAS ONLY USING ONE SUB PUMP. AS HER LAND CONTINUALLY WASHED AWAY DUE TO SNOW AND RAIN, SHE HAD TO GET ANOTHER SUB PUMP, OF WHICH NOW TWO SUB PUMPS DOES NOT CONTROL THE WATER THAT COMES INTO HER HOUSE.

THE CITY COUNCIL NEEDS TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND PUT IN A DRAINAGE SYSTEM ON OHIO STREET.