Hewitt Road Flooding Event #4. Catastrophic Super Silt Fence failure
- Aug 5
- 1 min read
We all got these alerts around 3pm today in West Amwell. A nasty little storm cell was heading straight for us from the South.
Despite having no sleep and having other issues to deal with, I headed out the door with dread.
This is what I saw.
Warning: There is extensive profanity as I am cursing out this situation in realtime.
This is the bottom of our driveway. The brownish color of the water tells the tale. This is not regular runoff. This is 25 Hewitt Road Runoff.
Moving up the driveway we can see the drainage ditch is barely containing the water. Some top soil bags I threw out several weeks ago in an abundance of caution actually helped protect us from the worst of it. Even so we started getting seepage over those soil bags.
The source of the problem became apparent very quickly when we got to the top of the driveway. The super-silt fence had failed catastrophically.
There is plenty more video and pictures of the same. Our neighbors garage is flooding again. His house is at risk, as is ours and several other houses on Hewitt Road.
What is it going to take to shut this down? Loss of property? Someone's house getting flooded out?
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