Flooding

Said the Carpenter and Congress flooding problem dates to old clay pipes from the city's 1900 West End expansion and that Mount Zion is being asked to do the city's sewer work at its own expense.

Said subsidence has recurred three times and keeps resetting their construction progress; thanked the mayor and staff by name and asked for a clear next step.

Detailed the site's drainage saga: an unmapped Congress Street drain pipe, a missing brick in the tunnel, a capped ten-inch pipe, and the city's refusal to pay or offer floodgates; said she can't get callbacks from public works.

Said it's upsetting that businesses got immediate flood help while the city's heritage site struggles, called the treatment of Ada Woodson heartbreaking, and noted nobody told them about the flood barrier program.

The Classic Gold Realty owner says his office flooded a third time this year — the worst yet — and questions whether the city has the manpower to clear choke points, urging ODOT to fix the 150-foot hill slip on state property behind the car wash.

A local architect who owns the old Morrison School says Sunday night's flood was the worst he's seen in 45 years — water in 80% of his first floor — and supports underground detention storage like projects he's built in the Midwest.

Classic Gold Real Estate reports lost rental families, a displaced resident, and a neighboring auction house that just moved out after the worst flood of all.

Described three floods this summer at Mount Zion, subsidence holes, and clogged pipes, asking for catch basins uphill and repairs.

Mount Zion's treasurer detailed an undocumented broken rooftop-drain line and the group's three specific repair requests.

Mount Zion's president said the West End isn't getting the same treatment as Richland Avenue and was told to pay for repairs even on city pipes.

A hydrologist who helped with the Army Corps study explained why Richland Avenue floods — bridges overtopping at 5-10 year storms, impervious development, sediment — and offered a plan from temporary flood barriers to long-term detention, offering to advise the city for free.

Property owner at 536 Richland Avenue urged council to focus on the old bridge near Paul Paltas backing up water, the ODOT-created choke point near the old Morrison School, and to create a standing annual ditch/culvert maintenance budget.

Described June 2026 sewage flooding that destroyed her family's finished basement and $17,000 in belongings, and asked the city for assurance and updates that the sanitary sewer problem is fixed before they refinish.

Owner of Classic Gold Real Estate at 530 Richland Avenue, flooded four times since 2013 with $9,000 in costs, argued US-33 ramps add runoff, the 1935 bridges are choked with 5-6 feet of silt, and cleaning between the two bridges can be done immediately.

Reported that a neighbor across the road was EMS-transported from her home after the air inside was found toxic following flooding, and that a renter nearby cannot live in their home.

A master plumber described his own 2015 sewer backups and how a city-installed $275 backflow valve has kept his Elmwood Place home dry for 11 years, urging the city to install the same device for flooded East State Street homeowners.