Scarsdale residents renew push to mitigate Troublesome Brook flooding
Scarsdale residents and advocates who live on Clarendon Place are renewing their push to stop the flooding on their street that they say is caused by Troublesome Brook.
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Scarsdale residents and advocates who live on Clarendon Place are renewing their push to stop the flooding on their street that they say is caused by Troublesome Brook.
Robert DiLorenzo said the issue has been going on for years. He said he sees it firsthand because he helps his mom maintain her house on the street.
"So, we got flooded after Hurricane Ida. Thank God we haven't got hit since then, but other neighbors here got flooded multiple times," DiLorenzo said.
He said they've asked the Town of Greenburgh to mitigate the flooding in the past. However, he said he feels that not enough is being done.
"What we want is an updated report of the study after Hurricane Ida and we want the pipes of Troublesome Brook cleaned out," DiLorenzo said.
He said residents are so fed up that they've started to take matters into their own hands.
"We all put in money, and we had them cleaned out ourselves with a private company," DiLorenzo said.
Paul Feiner, Greenburgh's town supervisor, said he understands that there is an issue. He told News 12 that the town has taken action to try to fix the flooding problem.
"We have contracted Woodard and Curran as a consultant to perform an analysis of the area...We've also put an RFP out," Feiner said. "But it may also turn out, at the end of the day, that this could be millions of dollars when it impacts only a handful of residents."
Feiner said they're also considering the option of buying out homes or recommending that residents lift their homes up.
"We've also been pushing for state legislation that the state just recently approved that will be giving the assessor the ability to reduce taxes for those residents that have been impacted negatively by flooding," Feiner said.
The supervisor said he and the town are also open to other solutions that residents in the area want to suggest.
