Re: *EMCA* Bomar/Morgan Drainage

Scott, Nathalie, Gayle and everyone else involved:

This was a great contribution to the project. We need community memories: someone like you and Candalaria Moreno with good memories and someone with a big hard disk to archive our e-mails. I discovered a couple of other contributing factors: Mrs. Moreno or someone at 405 Bomar must have had a problem going from their driveway into a slightly elevated Bomar, so they pored a concrete ramp to connect their driveway and the street. It forms a dam so they put a four inch pipe in the cement. It's too small and is probably filled with debris. And the 1916 cover for the storm sewer drain at Willard and Morgan has caved in so it now blocks the drain instead of covering it.

I made a little map (based on the HCAD map) which I'm attaching, hoping that it doesn't take too long to download. Let me know if you see something that should be added or substracted before I take it to Ada Edwards' office.

At 09:27 PM 2/27/2002 -0000, you wrote:

<EMCA Infrastructure Friends,

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<Here's what I learned in the last few years regarding the poor

<drainage at the corner of Bomar & Morgan.

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<1. Hillary is correct about the method for fixing the problem. Jew

<Don Boney (fmr. Dist. D Councilman) told us/me at several forums,

<that using official COH channels is the only way to get things done.

<Last year's "wish list" presented by Amy Barnes to Jew Don Boney

<likely resulted in some minor fixes to East Montrose. However,

<formal requests on COH paperwork is desireable, since the Dist. D

<councilperson can more easily track the progress through the City

<offices.

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<2. I requested, by phone, that both sides of Morgan Street have

<their ditches dug out. Only the east side (309 Bomar and 308

<Willard) was performed. The workers didn't realize they needed to do

<both sides and said they would return another day to work on the west

<side. Naturally, they never returned. A solution could be as easy

<as calling the "Storm Drain" office and requesting that the

<appropriate addresses (401 Bomar & 402 Willard) have their ditches

<redug along Morgan. By the way, it took about 5 months after my call

<for the workers to do half the job.

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<3. Candelaria Moreno (405 Bomar) told me that there was once a ditch

<along Morgan Street, between Bomar & Willard. It was partially

<filled in during a prior Morgan Street resurfacing. The poor drainage

<was a direct result of this work. Since she has lived at this

<address for more than 30 years, I don't know when that event occurred.

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<4. Unless the City decides to build a sports arena at 401 Bomar

<Street, they are unlikely to construct a proper storm drain.

<Therefore redigging the ditch seems the only short term solution.

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<GOOD LUCK!!!

<

<Your friend & ex-neighbor,

<Scott Long

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(Mr.) Hilary Smith

712 Bomar St.

Houston TX 77006-1316

713.523.0559

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