Yonkers - Mudslide 3-11-15

[x635 4,066]

Date: 3-11-15
Time: 13:30hrs
Location: 95-97 Walsh Rd
Weather: 53 degrees, clear
Units: Engine 306, Engine 303, Engine 309, Engine 312, Ladder 71, Ladder 72, Ladder 75, Squad 11 w/ Collapse Unit, Rescue 1, FSU 6, Battalion 1, Car 2 (IC), Empress EMS (Standby), Yonkers PD, Yonkers OEM

Description: 8 feet of mud and debris slid up against rear of building behind 95-97 Walsh Rd secondary to a large retaining wall collapse near Old Croton Aqueduct property with potential for additional soil disruption . Building is a multiple-story, multiple unit concrete-construction senior citizen and disabled senior citizens residence. Buildings being evacuated as a precaution. Walsh Rd Command being established, extended incident. Requesting Battalion 3 be placed into service for the city. Over 100 evacuated residents being moved to a temporary shelter.

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13:54hrs Walsh Rd Command reporting 95 Walsh Rd is fully evacuated, working on evacuating 97 Walsh Rd

14:15hrs Fire Prevention requesting a truck company to 164 Ashburton Ave for assistance for forcible entry, water coming from the building flowing down towards Walsh Rd. Buidling is behind and uphill from the Walsh Rd property. Ladder 72 assigned.

14:26hrs Walsh Rd Command reporting 97 Walsh Rd is fully evacuated

14:27hrs Walsh Rd Command requesting Engine company to 164 Ashburton Ave for dewatering of the basement. Engine 309 assigned.

15:30hrs Walsh Rd Command releasing some units

16:46hrs Walsh Road Command requesting Engine 312 to the scene to maintain control of the building

Edited March 11, 2015 by x635
Updated

[Disaster_Guy 96]

Water coming from Croton Aqueduct.

Yonkers OEM on scene at 13:50 hrs, requesting American Red Cross for up to 200 displaced residents.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/03/11/high-rises-evacuated-after-mudslide-in-yonkers/

Edited March 11, 2015 by Disaster_Guy

[Dinosaur 844]

Is that the old Croton aqueduct or is this still in service? I don't recall which is which anymore.

[x635 4,066]

Is that the old Croton aqueduct or is this still in service? I don't recall which is which anymore.

It was the Old Croton Aqueduct that runs behind 95-97 Walsh Rd, built in the 1830's to provide millions of gallons of water from the reservoir in Croton to NYC, and decommissioned in 1965, and now the grassy surface atop the aqueduct makes for a linear park (trail) along it's old route.

http://parks.ny.gov/parks/96/details.aspx

[kinkchaser 352]

A few years back a major rock cliff collapse occurred in Pelham on Fifth Avenue and crushed several stores and actually totaled them. The rock formation was later braced by metal /cable net arrangement to prevent further collapse of this unstable formation. Again this was a winter situation of cold=warm -rain freezing and melting that caused this near disaster. Pelham, New Rochelle and Yonkers responded to mitigate the structual issues but little could be done for the cliff until this net arrangement was put in place, Could this method be of any use to Yonkers on Walsh Road perhaps not on the mudslides but brace that big old. wall ?????