With more storms forecast for tomorrow, including potentially extended torrential rain, Hewitt Road folks are nervous. There is no indication 25 Hewitt Road is ready for it.

Some stormwater-theater occurred last week after the super-silt failed from the last storm. I call it theater for a simple reason: there was a lot of activity and stuff going on on the property, but little if any of it seems to be well-thought out, and it certainly doesn't look any more secure than it was before the last storm.

But we haven't looked at the back portion of the property in awhile, so we loaded up on bug spray, heavy jeans, and industrial gloves, and headed out via Hewitt Park. There is audio commentary, so turn the sound on if you want to hear the description of each video.

Note: The bug spray did not work.

The first video shows us approaching the back south western corner of the property.

Video #1 - Back of 25 Hewitt.

You can see the survey marker showing the property line with the stake with the pink ribbon on it. The landscape is characterized as moderate slopes with extensive raw orange dirt and mud everywhere. There is no evidence at any attempt at erosion control beyond the silt fences. A lone vernal pool is shown filled with muddy water. We can see they now have multiple silt fences in the back now too, and they appear to have failed badly just like the front.

The second video is from due west behind the property looking towards Hewitt Road.

Video #2 - Due west of 25 Hewitt Looking East

In this video you can see more clearly that there is now a regular silt fence and a bit of a super silt fence as well. More orange mud and devestated landscape.

Oh, and the back super silt fence was overwhelmed with mud and failed too, this is highlighted at the end of the video.

The third video highlights the boulder / rock fence the owner created in the back.

Video #3 - Boulder fence

The boulder fence includes a boulder that was actually a block quarried out the ground back when this was an active quarry site around 150 years ago.

The fourth video is taken back about 40-50 yards from the property to the South West of the corner.

Video #4 - Mud and sediment runoff over 50 yards from property

You can see the ground is covered in mud flows from the last several rains, over half a football field away from the property.

The fifth video shows the failed super silt fence from a different angle.

Video #5 - Another angle on failed super silt fence

In addition to the failed super-silt, you can see the debris absolutely strewn all over the area and orange mud everywhere.

Remember as we said at the start of this article, the Hewitt-road frontage was given lip service by the owner after the last round of storms. He had his work crews all over the front giving the appearance he was doing something.

He didn't bother to do anything in the back after the last set of storms, which is impossible to see from the road. So while he "fixed" the super silt in the front (not really, but he at least stood the fence back up), he didn't bother to try to fix the back super-silt fence at all.