Pleasantville/Saw Mill & Recent Flooding

[x635 4,066]

I'm curious. Did Pleasantville get hit with any flooding from the Saw Mill River during these recent bouts of rainstorms?

If so, did the NYS*DOT "fix" of paving it higher work,preventing the parkway from flooding?

[dadbo46 50]

The Saw Mill did flodd in the vicinity of 117 during the Nor'easter. I think that I was the last vehicle to get thru while headed south Sunday afternoon.

The work that NYSDOT was a temporary measure that in no way allieviated the problem of too much water being sent downstream into an area that is now a swamp ...ooopppps....wetland.....with a meandering stream that cannot help but overflow it's banks each time their is a significant rainfall event.

The paving job helped by raising the road a bit but the problem persists.

[x635 4,066]

Also, I blogged about this. Read it here:

http://x635.blogspot.com/2007/04/simple-so...ster-river.html

[Guest partyrock]

Seth your solution and natuarlist desire are incompatible. Wanna fix the flooding on the area rivers, take a look at the Saw Mill between Chappaqua and downtown Pleasantville. From Washington ave there is some great access through private property or the aqueduct. The river bed is all concrete covered by any where from a trace to a couple of inches of silt and sand. Years ago the whole area use to flood, occasionally backing up into downtown chappaqua. So they fixed it, widdening it, clearing it, and ensuring constant flow at all times. now all that grows there are tall grass and cat tails. It is far from the swamp and wetlands that use to grow a variety of wildflowers and support alot of wildlife. Its all rats, insects, and a fish I can't recall. The entire stretch is the same at one end as it is at the other.

You can either let the waterway run its course or you can modify it fit our needs. One way nature wins, the other nature loses. We can both win, but that means changing the road. The roads as they are were built for conveinance. Raise up the roads or go around flood prone areas. Thats the only fix that allows for nature to also go its own course.

You are spot on about cleaningthat area though. Been down the bronx river since the nor' easter?? From the cross county south the river has almost a cloud of garbage over it snagged in the trees and brush the live the river. I guess its teh Bronx version of a highwater mark.