Q&A
Challenges with catch basin maintenance and water quality issues
1:00:35
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Council Member Holden describes ongoing issues with catch basin cleaning, water discoloration, and the need for better communication about infrastructure work affecting water quality. Commissioner Aggarwala acknowledges these concerns and discusses potential solutions.
- Catch basins often remain uncleaned due to parked cars and lack of coordination with DOT
- Water discoloration is a common complaint, sometimes caused by nearby street milling
- Council Member Holden suggests focusing on the top 15 complaints to create a more manageable system
- The discussion highlights the need for better inter-agency coordination and public communication
Robert F. Holden
1:00:35
Right.
1:00:36
Because here here's what's happening on the on the front lines, and I guess you know some of this.
1:00:40
But for instance, we have a catch base and it needs cleaning.
1:00:46
Somebody says it's an odor.
1:00:48
It's been going on for months.
1:00:49
We can't get anything done.
1:00:50
And then the person tells us, well, you know, there's a car always parked in front of it, and DOT doesn't even come out and put out a a, you know, no parking sign the night before.
1:01:00
So and that's that's even in front of my house.
1:01:02
I have the same situation.
1:01:04
They never clean that.
1:01:05
You you could, you know, on on certain days, you really get a it's a terrible odor coming from it.
1:01:11
But for instance, we had I I get biggest complaint I get is about water possibly being brown I'm getting brown water or, you know, it's discolored.
1:01:22
Why is this happening?
1:01:24
Something very simple like DOT is milling the streets in the area.
1:01:29
So that probably shook, I guess.
1:01:31
I'm I'm just guessing on whether that would cause you know, that discoloration of water.
1:01:38
But but there's a 1,000,000 other things.
1:01:40
And again, it doesn't have to be we could look at the top 15 complaints what people care about.
1:01:49
And then put that on some kind of and just, like, we could log the complaints, and it might just take a few employees.
1:01:54
I don't know.
1:01:54
I mean, that's up to, you know, I I guess, talking to the other agencies and see what they do.
1:01:59
It might be a good thing, but I get a lot of sinkholes, you know, fire, fire hydrants leaking that take a very, very long time.
1:02:10
But the sinkholes are all over the city, and and I guess the people sit in priority because sometimes they go on for years.
1:02:20
And so that's where we could say we're expecting this to be done in 2025 toward the end depending on the severity of it.
