Appeals to Mayor to Correct Flooding Problem

To the Editor:
I am a tax paying “Shoobie” who bought a one-room efficiency from the late Emma Jackson in 2001.
Two of our children bought the efficiency that was the middle of three. Their unit was never quasi flooded until the last high tide. Stem to stern, their block tiles were wet.
There has been no recent rain in Wildwood. A neighbor from the new houses on Montgomery Avenue reported that they have usually used Baker Avenue to escape, but it was too high. The wind, the moon position of full, and new resulted in an unusual predicament.
She said the city’s installation of pumps worked wonders to prevent the Otten’s Harbor water from washing over the boat slips and docks into their family rooms and out through their garages to Montgomery.
Eleven cars, some very expensive, have been destroyed by salt-water damage on Montgomery Avenue. Most unsuspecting city visitors have no inkling of harm from plowing through seawater.
Neither a plumber nor builder could find a leak in pipes on the building. A Spout Off in a Wednesday Herald pinpointed the problem; two new drains at Rio Grande and Susquehanna.
Mayor Troiano, please put pumps in as soon as possible so Montgomery and Baker are safe. We suspect the high water table from a house torn down immediately behind the kids’ unit was saturated with the additional over run of new water from the Montgomery Avenue over flow.
The high tides and lunar position meant more rising water.
If we have to abandon our water soggy units, there are no huge tax losses on efficiencies. Montgomery Avenue has some beautiful, huge dwellings that would be sorely missed taxwise.
We’ve seen how effective the pumps were. May we have ones to handle the renegade water?
Last — May we please have cold patching for the ends of Baker and Montgomery avenues? I asked a street worker who said paving was too expensive, but cold patching was possible. May we have that needed treatment?
V. A. BRAXTON
Wyndmoor, Pa.