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Large portions of Maplewood appeared Mary Kotilinek, Ramsey County road "We had many calls about areas where
to be a sea last week while the spring thaw and maintenance' engineer, said his basements were nearly flooded, but in
was at its height. department's biggest problem last week Maplewood we haven't had a problem
According to Bill Cass, Maplewood in Maplewood was flooded intersections. with flooded basements," he said.
public works coordinator, the situationThere was trouble with the storm
was not as'bad as it appeared. The county crews are busy steaming sewers along Frost Avenue in Maplewood
"We received a lot of calls relative to open culverts under driveways.He hopes being plugged. The county and City of
imminent flooding of basements, but I all the culverts and catch basins along the Maplewood crews worked to reopen them
only know of three cases where water got county roadways will be open within a last week in order to eleviate roadway
into the basement. couple of weeks. flooding.
"I don't know how many had water
trickle in the cracks during the thaw,"he j
commented. t .�"'
"We were able to assist all three of the _' ON .
basements with flooding problems. They .
were in low lying areas where there are - ," 3 f,
no storm sewers: The worst had three „,i! ” a a• )t°
inches in it." I It-' ;
This has not been a bad spring. The f '4 i' z'� .°:
public works department has managed to � p� „
keep up. with the water problems, he „ S `
stated. ;'
Cass said the greatest danger of � �,
basement flooding is'probably over. The 4 lT " & _r `
volume of runoff is decreasing because ' r`
the water is beginning to evaporate or t '>'
soak into the ground.
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WORKMEN FOR the Maplewood Utility Department,Dave
Edson, 2286 Skillman Ave., North St. Paul, and Richard
Bartholomew, 211 Deion Court. Woodbury. right- snPnt an