Greece Supervisor Bill Reilich says National Guard soldiers and town DPW workers are building a wall today along Edgemere Drive west of Dewey Avenue, trying to protect the buildings there from being flooded from Round Pond.
The Army Corps of Engineers recommended the sandbag and concrete barrier wall in an effort to protect the road and houses from flooding from Lake Ontario on the north and the Pond on the south. Water has been about a foot-and-a-half deep across Edgemere Drive in that section between Dewey Avenue and Island Cottage Road. The town has a string of large pumps running along the road, trying to keep the water down between sandbag barriers.
Reilich says half a dozen homes have been evacuated because their first floors are underwater and the power had to be shut off.
In the meantime, the town is petitioning through White House Dot Gov for the controversial Plan 2014 to be overturned. They’re hoping to get 100,000 signatures in a week which requires a White House response. They want President Trump’s help in restoring the former 1958 management plan. Reilich says it would have let regulators release water from Lake Ontario during the winter when it began to appear there would be a high water problem.