This big machine, on tracks, has cleared ditches that were stopped up with 20 years of trash and growth. This work will continue, weather permitting. Our town manager is concentrating on the larger outfall ditches. His plan is to open up the main drainage ditches next and then the smaller neighborhood drainage ditches. This is not a project you can complete in 30 days or even 180 days.
Public works has other problems to correct.
We will continue to make progress. However, I am told that once we complete Phase II of our Infiltration and Inflow Project, our storm water problems will increase. Storm drainage is a big, ongoing project. We can only control the flow within our town limits. I believe we can and will get our stormwaters to Thunder Swamp and the North East Cape Fear River.