Grass Grows In Storm Drains On Yankee Doodle Bridge

Don’t be too sure, the harbor commission was horrified to learn the storm drains for a big section of the turnpike all drain direct into the river with nothing to filter out anything. Seems all the turnpike bridges across rivers are set up the same way and each river has elevated contamination levels at the bridges. That is part of the reason why it cost so much for capping material for our recent dredging, and some of the worst material was buried in the river bottom because it was too bad for open water disposal, under any circumstance. Harbor commission would like to see that corrected. Nobody now can run road or parking lot drains direct into the river or harbor without a system that takes out oil, sand, and other stuff that should not go into the water. Filters, like the ones they use in Norwalk street drains, would be a help, but they require maintenance and DOT is not interested. Grass growing out of the storm drains demonstrates their committment to storm drain maintenance, sadly. A lot of those accidents happen on nice dry days and are probably more the result of poor driving than water on the road, but when the road is wet, there are always a few who go way too fast to maintain control if somebody makes a lane change in front of them. It doesn’t take deep water to get some tires to hydroplane.

My guess is that is has more to do with DOT budget cuts than anything else.

That, and what Old Timer says about lousy drivers. I’ll bet most of ‘em are on the phone.

OMG. That must be that horrific thing I saw in a youtube clip someone tried to pass off as an alien being in a sewer. Scary looking stuff!