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Council Member Marmorato discusses flooding issues and requests a walk-through with DEP
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Council Member Kristy Marmorato expresses concerns about persistent flooding in her district and requests another walk-through with the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to explore potential solutions. DEP Deputy Commissioner Beth DeFalco responds, offering to set up a meeting and discussing possible strategies to address the flooding issues.
- Marmorato highlights the normalization of flooding among her constituents and the need for more effective solutions.
- DeFalco mentions the unified stormwater rule and its potential benefits for new construction projects.
- The discussion touches on exploring green infrastructure opportunities and simpler solutions like street regrading.
Kristy Marmorato
0:40:45
Thank you, chair.
0:40:46
So last year, did a walk through with the DEP team, and I kind of felt like the only thing I walked away with was to tell my constituents to constantly report flooding through 311.
0:40:58
And we have been just constantly devastated by flooding with every simple rainstorm to the point where people kind of feel like this is a natural way of life and they have to like combat it on their own and they don't think to put the 311 calls because this is just normal to them.
0:41:14
Is there any way that we can do another walk through in my district?
0:41:18
Because now you're saying that you're coming up with all these different kinds of solutions to combat the flooding.
0:41:23
If we can identify areas in different portions of the neighborhood just to see what we can do or at least get the conversation started to have the ball rolling where eventually we can offset some of the flooding and especially with the city of YES, I have Locust Point is my biggest one of my bigger flooding zones, and we have somebody coming in that's gonna build six three family houses right next to wetlands, and it's just like it this is already a street that floods constantly with rain.
0:41:52
So I just want to know if we can at least start a conversation, just get an understanding and at least inform me so I can inform my constituents and see how we can like fix things or make things better.
0:42:02
Because I know you're not going to redo my sewers.
0:42:04
There's no money in the
0:42:39
Great.
0:42:39
Thank you.
0:42:40
I'd like to get in contact with you guys sooner or later because now is kind of more of the rainy season, I feel.
0:42:44
Okay.
0:42:45
Thank you so much.
0:42:46
Thank you, chair, and congratulations.
Beth DeFalco
0:42:04
budget for all of this.
0:42:07
No.
0:42:07
We could absolutely set that up.
0:42:09
And one of the things, as Deputy Commissioner mentioned earlier about the unified stormwater rule or the stormwater rule is as those new buildings come up and come online, they're going start managing stormwater that otherwise was not managed before in the same way.
0:42:23
So hopefully that will be some of a benefit.
0:42:25
We can certainly take a look if there are any green infrastructure opportunities.
0:42:29
Or if there's a more simple solution to what the flooding may be, whether that's a street regrading or other issues, we can figure out, first of all, what's causing the flooding.
0:42:38
Okay.