(Flooding Issue Updates)

Wallace Street/Union Avenue Flooding Issue
This concerns the Wallace Street culvert repairs/modifications that took place from April through June 2005.
This area is just east of the Union Avenue and Wallace Street intersection.


REFERENCED DOCUMENT LINKS MENTIONED IN EMAILS

  August 22, 2007 - Flooding issue at the Wallace Street & Union Avenue area
Email sent to Rex Hennen, Assistant City Engineer City of Shawnee
cc: Chuck Mills, Mayor; John Krywicki, City Engineer; Wade & Crystina Blevins; Jim & Pat Brown

   August 27, 2007 - Wallace Street/Union Avenue flooding issue
Email sent to Wade & Crystina Blevins, Jim & Pat Brown, Misty Brown, Carol McGavern
cc: Rex Hennen, Assistant City Engineer, John Krywicki, City Engineer, Chuck Mills, Mayor, Linda Peterson, Vice Mayor

   August 31, 2007 - Meeting with City Engineers
Email sent to Wade & Crystina Blevins, Jim & Pat Brown, Misty Brown, Carol McGavern
cc: Rex Hennen, Assistant City Engineer, John Krywicki, City Engineer, Chuck Mills, Mayor, Linda Peterson, Vice Mayor

   October 22, 2007 - Continuing review of the Wallace Street/Union Avenue flooding issue (amended)
Email sent to Mayor Chuck Mills and Vice Mayor Linda Peterson
cc: Pam Stephens, Ward 1; Thomas Schrzan, Ward 2; Marva O'Neal, Ward 3; Timmy Young, Ward 4; Carl Holt, Ward 6; Jim & Pat Brown; Carol McGavern; Misty Brown; James Collard, City Manager; Wade & Crystina Blevins; Kevin Abel; John Krywicki, City Engineer; Rick Connor; Rex Hennen, Assistant City Engineer

original head wall vertical design
April 14, 2005
(pic courtesy of the Engineering Office, City of Shawnee)
current head wall sloped/beveled design
August 19, 2007
(taken by Keith McGavern)
other vertical head wall designs
August 31, 2007
(pics taken by Keith McGavern)
These pictures are examples of runoff passageways in Shawnee
that are both upland and downland from the Wallace Street area.
north kickapoo avenue culvert
September 10, 2007
(pics taken by Keith McGavern)
This culvert is the only other one in Shawnee with the sloped/beveled design.
(Information provided by Mr Krywicki, City Engineer)
June 2007 flood (after and during) pics
June 25, 2007
(taken by Keith McGavern from his porch)
August 2007 flood pics
August 19, 2007
(taken by Wade Blevins from his porch)
cell phone flood pic
June 25, 2007
(taken by cell phone user)
street / drain / debris
August 19-20, 2007
(taken by Keith McGavern)
pics of properties affected
(pictures taken by Keith McGavern)
erosion pics
August 19, 2007
(taken by Keith McGavern)

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