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At 260 East Ave,, corner of Carrigan Drive, there is a perennial puddle, inches deep. There are several more further north on East Ave. They will be freezing over soon, and they will be very slippery. This has been happening every year since I moved into Cohousing 15 years ago. The sidewalk is old and uneven, but that is not the problem in most spots. The lawn on one side and the greenbelt on the other are so high that there is nowhere for the water to go. In the summer it eventually drains into the soil, but now the ground is frozen. People walk in the snow over the grass to avoid the water or ice, depending.
At least in some places the problem could be solved immediately, and at little cost, if a channel were cut between the sidewalk and the street--a simple trench dug with a shovel--so the water could drain out.
This whole stretch of East Ave. is very dangerous due to the ice