The Hidden Rivers Fueling Urban Flooding

The Hidden Rivers Fueling Urban Flooding | Great Lakes Now

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@stephenknapp108 Ай бұрын

A very interesting video. But as a resident of Jefferson Chalmers, I remember that 2021 flood very well, yet if your house was not surrounded by water, you still were not spared. Water came up into your basement through the basement drains, and quite forcefully, too. Most of my neighborhood was affected in this way. And the basement stayed flooded until the pump houses were opened for work the next morning at 8 AM. Then within a couple hours, both the water levels outside as well as in the basements went down, but the damage had already been done. In other words, the flooded basements could have been prevented with fully functioning pump houses, and people minding them. I had learned before from a previous flood and put sands bags over my basement drains, which helped greatly once earlier, but the pressure was too great this time. So, I had three feet of water in my basement, and my neighbor, who had a back-flow valve put into her basement drain, had five feet of water in her basement. The water pressure just blew the back-flow valve out of the way. So, with basic improvements in the system, by adding more pump stations, this can be greatly, but maybe not fully, prevented, at least as far as the water coming back up through the basement drains. If it wasn't for that, I would not have experienced any flooding in the past ten years. As it is now, I've had three flooded basements in the past ten years. And yes, when there is talk of heavy rains in the weather forecast, I go into PTSD.

@danlowe8684 Ай бұрын

You should file a claim against the city. It is their responsibility to keep their sewer systems operational. A sewer backup is not a flood event. Most critical municipal pump stations have generator backup systems in case of power outages. They also have SCADA systems which communicate problems 24/7 to those in charge. You should request this data, also.

@PuncleLeonard 29 күн бұрын

In 67 we moved out to a brand new house in Sterling Heights that had a similar problem. Long and short of it, an old school dago down the street came up with a solution! He bolted a five foot long piece of pipe onto the top of the drain, problem solved!

@stephenknapp108 29 күн бұрын

@@danlowe8684 Yes, there is an ongoing lawsuit right now against GLWA and others, but I don't have a lot of hope for it. But no harm in trying.

@JayYoung-ro3vu 29 күн бұрын

I know municipalities are installing back-flow gates on sewer lines to prevent a flooding source. It's not cheap as it's paid by the users in the municipalities to government loans/grants. The property owners can agree to or opt out of the program. It's just another layer of protection for one's property.

@anitaquick3756 28 күн бұрын

I watched a video similar to that. They secured a pvc pipe to the floor drains @@PuncleLeonard

@jgm1974 Ай бұрын

So cool. I live on an underground river, according to the old folks behind me. Knowledge helps us tackle future climate/water issues. This video does not suck.

@chaos0852 27 күн бұрын

On or on top of?

@jgm1974 27 күн бұрын

@chaos0852 on top of. Runs beneath the backyards on my block.

@josephpalla3294 Ай бұрын

Marshland is not racist.

@mattlloyd9054 29 күн бұрын

Some how everything is racist and we're racist for even talking bout it lmao

@fastandcool 29 күн бұрын

Please research further into what redlining is.

@fastandcool 29 күн бұрын

@@mattlloyd9054 Please research further into what redlining is.

@sambathehusqueen9909 26 күн бұрын

I bet insurance companies will use this info to deny flood damage claims

@danlowe8684 Ай бұрын

There is too much here for a comment, but here I go: First, the street 'flooding' you showed in video are simply very localized storm drain issues, not flooding. Secondly, involving 'climate' in the story makes no sense, whatsoever. It contradicts not only common sense, but the rest of the points trying to be made. Third, the creeks were not 'filled in', they were channelized. This means a concrete box culvert or similar means was used to replace the natural flow (think Los Angeles River from movie scenes). Under most rivers that we can see are underground flows. These are the aquifers that we drill into and use for our municipal, agricultural, and private wells. This has nothing to do with flooding. From Outlier Media: The marshy land was dredged up in the mid-1800s and turned into farmland and homes, according to local historian Nick Sinacori. Near the end of the 19th century, the creeks were channeled into the canals, diverting the natural flow into artificial waterways as a way to attract visitors to the neighborhood horse racetracks. “Racing was huge here,” he said. “You didn’t have television or even radio. This was the main form of entertainment for people at the time.” Even then, flooding was a persistent issue. “Newspapers in the early 1900s had headline after headline about flooding and water issues,” Sinacori said. “It’s practically all they wrote about.”

@b_uppy 29 күн бұрын

Doing things like putting in bioswales, and raingardens can help reduce loads on stormdrains, and thus downstream flooding. It helps to start harvesting this rainwater well above the flood zones because most assuredly rain does start overwhelming the system there...

@mikemcnamee6030 29 күн бұрын

Can you guys consider dropping the music from your videos? The content is always very good but it’s so distracting and frankly cheap sounding with all the filler music.