photos courtesy of Village Manager Keith Kazmark
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Streets Division, cleared an overgrown and silt filled culvert behind homes on N. Irving Street near Stevens Field.
Village Manager Keith Kazmark said ,”A small fix to help mitigate flooding in this area. Every little bit helps”
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I did not know a trench was also a culvert
Yes. Culverts are generally concrete of metal structures conveying water under a land feature. This is an open trench.
I saw some of that work being done. 2 guys with shovels and 5 standing around watching.
Thank you. This is long overdue. This where all the storm drains lead to around that area to get to the brook.
Now you do.
Obviously, this wasn’t maintained, when was the last time this was cleaned out, isn’t anyone inspecting all of the waterways throughout the village. definitely someone’s not performing in their job. From living in the village for over 40 years, there was always a crew, maintaining ditches and drain systems throughout the village. In the past four years, the maintenance has not been the same.
Hey Mr. manager, who is responsible for making sure all of the drainage ditches culvert’s are kept clean.just so we know who to contact if we need to contact someone if we notice anything.
Overgrown and Silt filled Culvert is aka for- we were sleeping on the job and now that residents caught on we he do something.
So Keith, if every little hit helps, why was this neglected to the point that it became overgrown and silt filled?
Give me your address. I want to inspect to make sure everything in your house is 100% perfect.
People will complain about everything. It’s as if they are waiting to share their miserable lives with others.
Just say “good job” for once.
People who should be doing their jobs don’t need to be told “good job” like puppies that learned how to use their wee wee pads.
And it’s always the squeaky wheels that get the grease, remember.
Hater gonna hate
I think you are entirely missing the point. If you pay for a service, you expect quality work, no? Same rules apply that our tax dollars go to pay for services within the municipality. It goes to the salaries of civil servants who work for that municipality. Residents have every right to be vocal when tax dollars are not allocated properly, work is not being done, there are downstream effects of the mishandling of important work, etc, etc. It has zero to do with hating anyone, just the eyeballs on things that need to be prioritized by the people who are getting paid to do it.
We will when you get the workers to do what needs to be done. This site was not cleaned for a long time. Why , well know one was inspecting it, or they just don’t care. Know wonder we have locations like this that flood.who’s in charge. Years ago we all ways seen the storm drain trucks out cleaning storm draining systems.
It’s amazing how people are putting thumbs down on this, I really guess they don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. We are trying to avoid flooding and by maintaining all these locations and have the cruise out each each and every day like years ago, cleaning drain systems throughout the village just maybe it would help a little bit, but no, we have taxpayers are not seen our services like we used to. We wonder who’s responsible for inspecting all the rain drains, ditches, culverts, so on. The manager needs to get involved in this one big time, because obviously we have a bad situation here this didn’t happen overnight, we definitely have wrong individuals in charge, they’re not performing
Doesn’t the village own vacuum cleaning truck like to use in Paramus to clean out storm drains. I noticed in Paramus that truck is out every single day.
Someone’s not doing their job with inspection. Whoever is responsible should be immediately withdrawn from that position, obviously they can’t handle the position. They just don’t have to know how. We have extremely many residence, upset and angry because important maintenance is not being completed.
Maybe they should put out the sweeper crew to clean out ditches when they’re not operating Sweepers. There are many days that the sweeper does not go out like on rainy days, they can go out and clean Drains, ditches, catch basins, way too many down time days.
Touché ouch, what a great idea. It would be about time. We love it when they say oh we have to do (Maintenance).🧐 Enough of the bullshit, the village manager will come up with a new scheduling plan. Because this is not working, it’s definitely time for the village manager. Have everyone rotating doing other tasks and we mean everyone🫵🏼
That makes sense! Utilize every single worker. Even Forman to clean out water ways. Why not. You and I know that the manager is reading this.
Yeah, and he takes all your suggestions with utmost consideration.
We’ll see in our conversation this week.🧐
Come on fill those pot holes.
What is going on.