It took 20 years but, hey, it's getting done!

     Twenty years ago I was thirty-something, and the water was beginning to rise at Margaret Keilty's. It was starting to rise mainly when the hospital started covering more of its land with buildings and asphalt. That no doubt was a big cause for a lot more water suddenly coming across her land and starting to erode her land. You see, Margaret is down hill from the hospital. And that's when Margaret began her pursuit of some help, from those up above her, and mainly at the town hall. But apparently, no one wanted to tackle to job. Well, finally someone got involved recently, and then they got some advisers, and minds started working to come up with an answer. I am not going to credit anyone in name today as to who may have started it, but I do know that First Selectman Bob Loucks and General Contractor Florien Palmer sure seem to be those that have promoted it of late. Wednesday morning I stopped down at the site of that days digging on King Hill Road.  The Palmer Excavator was at work digging a hole where a large cement distribution piece was going to be placed. Again, we have another project with a local contractor working along with the town's road crew on a project. Again, logical to this observer.

     The project they decided on, consists of, as I understand it..... building a small pond-like area where water will gather, near Hafford's, and then it will go directly underground in large pipes down to just past Margaret's house where it will cross under the road and go down through the side of the land where the septic beds are, all the while underground. At the far edge it will come out and flow into a large purge-pool, which will hold the water and let it flow out gradually into the swamp, where it then flows to the valley brook. A relatively basic plan, allowing gravity to work, directing it to an area where it can flow out with presumably no harm to anyone.
    

 Nice. Very nice.

Oh yes. One other thing. In the findings from the experts who did approve the job, there is more water than just hospital water involved. It actually starts way up on Upper Main Street, on the north side of the watering trough, where it crosses Main and starts its way down the hill. With every bit of asphalt we put down, wherever it is, there is less ground to absorb.