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Show Storm drainage woes haunt West Bountiful By PALL CHALLIS News Editor WEST BOUNTIFUL "It looks like we need to change the culprits into culverts," said Mayor Carl Johnson after hearing discussion discus-sion of flooding due to storm drainage problems. The wrath of four weeks of spring rainstorms has caused flooding in several West Bountiful homes. Councilman Richard Judd reported to the council that he had received several phone calls from homeowners from 200 to 600 North and from 900 to 1100 West that have had basement damage from flooding. "The main cause of the flooding is due to poor storm drainage. Combine that with the rainfall in the area and homeowners are having to pump their basements and have sustained sus-tained damage, lost carpets and had other furnishings destroyed," Judd said. He added that West Bountiful has received several weeks of rain and the ditches have overflowed banks and flooded basements. "I have had water in my basement base-ment too," Judd said. "This is not the first year this has happened to me. I have had to replace two different carpets since moving in." Judd lives at 210 N. 1000 West, and many of his neighbors have been hit by the surface and ground water resulting from the spring rains. i He told the council several of the drainage areas in the community need to be cleaned out and fixed. "Many of the ditches on the edge of town need to be cleaned out and made more accessible to the waterflows. Many are plugged up," he added. Judd also said that there need to be more lines established to handle the overflow. "Storm drainage is a serious problem in this city." City officials claim one of the culprits is the Rio Grande Railroad ditch which is plugged and not the responsibility of West Bountiful. The council had commissioned Fred Campbell to do a study of the storm drainage system in West Bountiful, and it should be nearing the completion date. Campbell recently re-cently finished a 20-year water master plan for the city. "The storm drainage study needs to be completed and the city needs to act now on a solution," Judd said. Johnson said he would have the city staff contact Campbell and see how close he is to completing the storm drainage study. The councilmen agreed the problem prob-lem needs to be addressed as soon as possible. |