08-20-18 Health and Public Saftey & Utilities

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CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said what we are calling historic events are no longer historic. They are not going to be occurring every five hundred(500)years,they are going to be occurring every ten(10) or twenty(20)years. We really need to stop using this terminology in saying that these are extreme events, and consider how this is going to impact our community moving forward. The World Health Organization has stated that the CSOs are an extreme concern with what we expect of our changing climate, and make a recommendation with climate change that communities begin to transfer away from combined sewer overflow systems. As a scientist, I believe in quantifiable data. I have a few questions for LFA about the eighteen(18)inch and ten (10) inch pipe. There was discussion of how much flow would be needed if this was actually overwhelmed. I encourage the City to get that information so we can make that decision. Also, I would like to know how they decided what lines would be red. How many interruptions/ obstructions it took to classify those. Also, it was hard to tell if all of the North Shore Triangle lines were inspected, or if it was just a few. I'd like to see that full map available to us. Finally, I just got the report right before the start of the meeting. Not mentioned in the presentation was the sediment covering CSO five (5). It was buried by sediment and the comment was made that it might be impeding its ability to operate. I'd like more information about that. Also, my understanding is that in order for the City to be in compliance with the EPA, we are supposed to have regular maintenance and inspection of our sewer system. I am wondering why it took this extreme event to have these inspections, and why we don't have routine inspections and maintenance of our sewer systems. Helen Plencner, 2145 Englewood Place, stated, I've lived at this residence for fifty (50)years. In fifty (50) years, I have never had a flood in my basement except for 2016, February of 2018, and a few weeks ago. It has only been about two (2)inches of water, so I am fortunate that I have not had the same experience as others in this room have had. But whether it is two (2) inches or two (2) feet, it is still a hardship. It just seems to be that I live on a corner, and each of the houses on all four (4) corners have experienced the same thing, but yesterday evening, I walked down the street to pass out flyers about this meeting, and nobody else on the rest of my street seemed to have the problem. I'm curious why four (4) corners had that problem, but nobody else on the rest of the street did. Thank you. Trisha Eastbay, 1118 Academy Pl., stated, I've been there about twenty-three (23) years, and my basement floods every year at least two (2)to three (3)times per year. I'm about three(3)houses from Riverside, and I've noticed that water flows down our street and it hits the drain outside of my house and it just starts backing up into my basement. I own a pool pump and I pump water out regularly, and I don't even use my basement anymore. I think it is most of us on that end of the block, I don't think the rest of the block has that problem. I did not fill out the questionnaire. I'll make sure all of my neighbors fill it out if we get another survey. Jason Kenteck, 2201 Riverside, stated, I've lived there for thirteen (13)years and we've only had two (2) experiences of non-hundred-year incidents. We've had one (1) inch of rain and we got backflow into our basement. I think that our wastewater treatment facility might be in jeopardy too, because if we are so high up on Riverside and Oakwood, downstream we can do everything we want and change everything out, but if we don't fix it at the source, it literally runs downhill. When we called the first (11� time, the worker that came out acted like this is all brand new to them. I think it is disrespectful and insulting to be told by certain people that this is all new news to them. In regard to the backflow, where we are, we're told that we have one (1) of the largest drains right out in front of us, and if that's backing up and the wastewater treatment plant can't EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION i INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 1 227 W.Jefferson Bvld!South Bend,Indiana 46601 p574.235.9221 f574.235.9173.TTD574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 11