So today on 12/07/2022 The City workers show up with lots of equipment to dig out ditches. Unfortunately, they have been instructed to do work that was totally unnecessary. Some how, between my initial call to 311 on 11/26/2022, and the City Inspector showing up on 11/28/2022 communication broke down. I’m not surer how they inspector being here on 11/28/2022 translated into the City digging out ditches today but that’s seem to be what happened here. No digging was required to fix the problem I reported.
Here are my notes from that day along with a video of that day:
It was a big day today. The city responded to my flooding report to 311 by dredging up the ditch from 6907 XXXX Street, working their way down stream. As they kept going and it became obvious to me that they started at 6907 XXXXX street because that’s who reported it, me.
Once I realized that the work order I called in was clearly misconstrued and taxpayers money was now flying into the sky, I drew up a diagram of the actual problem and drove down to catch up with the crew to let them know they were not actually addressing the problem.
They slowly started understanding what I was saying, since I was the one that reported the initial action that caused them to be there in the first place. They all walked down to my house to see what I was talking about. They all inspected the culvert of 6915 XXXX Street and by time they left, they had what I think was a good understanding of the issue that is causing water to back up into 6911 and 6915 XXXX Street.