A Walnut Street resident who blames the town for drainage issues outside his house said he’ll have an engineering study done to back-up his claims.
John Boanno of 25 Walnut St. talked to members of the Board of Selectmen Sept. 20 about his water problem on his property.
Boanno said a waist-deep hole opened up next to a sidewalk in front of their home after flooding on Aug. 14. His wife fell into it and almost hit her head on the nearby sidewalk, Boanno said.
First Selectman Paul Roy said town officials will review Boanno’s engineering report when it is finished.
“We’ll have to see what the study shows,” Roy said Thursday.
Boanno wants the town to fix the storm water problem or buy the home he shares with his wife, children and mother-in-law, who owns the house.
Roy said he could not comment on what action the town may possibly take after the engineering study is done.
“I couldn’t even comment on what that is, and what the circumstances are. We have to see what that says,” Roy said.
Boanno said he will pay $4,000 for the study.
On Tuesday he gave members of the Board of Selectmen more than a dozen photographs showing how his section of Walnut Street floods from the Steele Brooke. He said he hopes the engineering study shows the town is responsible for his property damage.
His contention is that the town allowed the Silvermine Industrial Park to build up, and the storm runoff goes into the Steele Brook, causing the flooding problem.
“We don’t know that. That is his argument,” Roy said Thursday.
