Flooding Work Session Planned for Monday

Harrison residents are invited to a public work session Monday when the town board will hear an update from town engineers about work being done to mitigate some of the flooding that has taken place in many local neighborhoods.

The entire Harrison Town Board is expected to attend the public work session, scheduled for Monday at 7 p.m. Engineers have been looking into flooding issues that have become an almost regular occurrence in places like Genesee and Shawnee Trail, the Brentwood neighborhood and Park Avenue.

This work session will focus on flooding from the Brentwood Brook in the trails neighborhoods.

Although not a public discussion, the presentation will be an opportunity for residents in these neighborhoods to check on the town's progress since the most recent series of floods last summer.

In September, under the guidance of then-Mayor/Supervisor Joan Walsh, the town board  who expressed frustration after years of flooding in their neighborhoods.

Since winning election in November, newly elected Mayor/Supervisor Ron Belmont has promised to follow up on the town's flooding issues, most of the flood-prone areas before even taking office.

(Pictured are some of Harrison's flood-prone neighborhoods during Tropical Storm Irene in summer 2011)