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Public Meeting on Harbor Brook Flood Control is Monday Night

Members of the Linear Trail Committee plan to address the location of a proposed extension to the trail near Harbor Brook in the meeting.

The City of Meriden and the state's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection are hosting a Monday night to address flooding around Harbor Brook.

Starting at 7 p.m. in Council Chambers at City Hall, residents will be able to discuss their own issues with and interests in the city's current master plan involving flood plain improvements – like bridge replacements, and deepening the stream channel – as well as their own flooding problems.

This input will be taken into account as the DEEP and the city formulate an environmental impact evaluation on the city's plan.

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Members of the Linear Trail Committee plan to address the location of a proposed extension to the Linear Trail near Harbor Brook in the meeting, according to committee chairman Joseph Zajac.

The city has tentative plans to extend the trail that now runs near Red Bridge all the way to the Factory H site on Cook Ave and beyond.

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But most plans in place call for the trail to be on the west side of Harbor Brook (seen in the adjoining photo and in the attached 2009 report on Factory H development), which will put it next to the Butler Street Ext., near a proposed mixed-use development planned for Factory H, according to Zajac.

Zajac and other members of the committee would like to see the trail on the east side of the brook, which has less development.

This would "avoid the congestion of condos and parking lots," Zajac said, and he and members of his committee plan to bring this up at the meeting tonight. 

For residents who can't make it, the DEEP and the city will take comments until August 22, 2011. They can be addressed to:

Dan Biron, Project Manager, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Inland Water Resources Division, 79 Elm Street, Hartford, 06106 or can be faxed to this office at (860) 424-4075. 

or

Meriden Public Works Director Robert Bass at (203) 630-4018 or faxed to (203) 630-4025.


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