East St. Louis shuts down Eighth Street at Trendley Avenue near interstate due to flooding

“It was probably in the late 20's or early 30's that we got this pumping station”

By Carolyn P. Smith

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City officials shut down Eighth Street at Trendley Avenue on Wednesday morning because of an overflow of water causing motorists cars to stall out.

Public Works Director Jessie Walker said the pump station at the location is old, and antiquated and not working.

'And, when it rains, we get an average of 3 inches of rain,' he said. 'We get more rain now than we did 30 years ago. We've had two days of rain, and today, the snow we recently got is melting. Motorists who travel the Trendley-at-Eighth-Street route ran into some problems because of the overflow of water the pumping station was not pumping out.' Read more

[MzLady165]

I think the city needs to do something about it instead of buy the officer new cars.The city say it's broke but everytime you look up it's something new,but the wrong thing is new.What about the streets and house that need to be done.I was born and raised in East.St.Louis and it looked then same from when I was little.East St.Louis need some help on "DOING THE RIGHT THING".Take care of East St.Louis make it beautiful AGAIN!!!!!