Finance Committee - 11/04/2020 Page 11
Mr. Boucher
I'll ask about that because | don’t recall many calls going out there to clean catch basins but that would be the
issue if there were plugged catch basins around there.
Mayor Donchess
Could it be that the pipe isn’t sufficient size to take in the flow?
Mr. Boucher
In a catch basin it can be, but usually just clogged, they are usually sized properly. And | would have to look at
the GIS to see if that ties into a nearby water body or if it goes into the sewer.
Mayor Donchess
Can you check it out?
Mr. Boucher
Yeah.
Alderman O’Brien
If | may, over the years I’ve dealt with that, | remember being on the Fire Department, if my memory serves me
as what Alderman Harriott-Gathright says it is by Belletetes Hardware and Murphy Drive and it goes right
across Northeastern Boulevard. | think it’s a remnant of an old brook and it basically swells up during severe
weather and there’s not much you can do with it. It’s been like the perineal problem; maybe it’s time to
readdress it and look at it again. But like | think it's more natural. And where it’s a brook, I’m sure maybe
Wastewater doesn’t want the brook going into their system, you know, constantly draining. So that may need
to be looked at to give it a better place to go or catch basin or something. | mean perhaps maybe an overflow
that it can go into.
Mr. Boucher
Yeah there is a brook that crosses that, | can see it on the GIS. | don’t know if it’s that end of the street you are
talking about. There’s not a lot of drainage as far as catch basins go on that end of the street.
Alderman O’Brien
If you’re looking around Murphy Drive, it is right about there and Belletetes.
Mr. Boucher
Yeah that’s the one | see.
Alderman O’Brien
And if | remember right, the brook has a name but | can’t think of it right now.
Mr. Boucher
But that’s a matter of making sure the culverts are clean, we would look at that too. And 12 inch, | don’t know if
12 inch is a large enough culvert for that area.
