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This property owner spread gravel over his driveway to fill the ruts that would hold and retain water after every rainstorm. This is at best a temporary solution and now results in gravel tracked over the sidewalk instead of mud. Eventually the same ruts will form again and the problem will return.
This property owner does not understand that vehicles driving over his driveway and into his backyard have caused the unpaved earth to become hard packed resulting in very bad drainage and causing pools of standing water to form which take several days to drain.
Standing water is a health hazard which can result in disease carrying mosquitos as well as bacterias like giardia and cryptosporidiosis, and e. coli and tetanus.
This property owner needs to install dry wells and pave his parking lot properly. I've included photographs of the backyard after a rainstorm and also the driveway.
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J. Outside Blight
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Brian Tang (Martida)
Brian Tang (Martida)
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Kevin Donohue (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
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Brian Tang (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
I also live on Dwight St and have found it to be a pretty nice neighborhood, especially during the summertime when we are able to meet our neighbors at Rainbow Park. My house is probably one of the crummier looking houses when viewed from the front. I have grand plans for how to plant it up, remediate for lead, and improve drainage, but I don't know how much I can afford to personally spend on the project and I'm too shy to ask my landlord if he would be interested in chipping in. This is why I'm trying to see if there would be interest in starting a Community Greenspace group to fix up all of the crummy-looking front yards on our street.
As for drainage at 222 Dwight, I have been experimenting with how to build rain gardens that incorporate small dry wells to infiltrate runoff. I plan to build a small one in my front yard soon (I live in the blue house across the street from you, Mr. Martsen). If it works well, and if we could get the permission of the landlord at 222 Dwight, I'd be willing to build one there, too, especially if someone would be willing to volunteer their car or truck to go pick up a bunch of round stones and wood chips with me.
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