I recall Mike Hullihan, our past public works director, suggested working on the drainage in swan pond by creating a new drainage system. Don do you recall the exact nature of what Mike suggested? I can't recall them myself but, I know Mike is a expert in this field and his ideas should have merit.
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Posted Friday Jun 26, 2009 10:09 #
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Let it rest Eric. The only ones who can see the blinding flash of the obvious are those with their eyes open.
Posted Friday Jun 26, 2009 15:54 # -
Eric - There is a valve up on library hill that I think used to control the exit of the water, but it has not functioned for many years. Sometime back I think Mike and John Kunka and perhaps some others did a plan - but what it was based on I don't know. John might - perhaps it was his plan, I'm not sure. I was only speaking to the issue of doing the obvious, and the minimum. When you go and see the wall holding back the river as it rises, and then it flooding through holes you can see through and over topping in two areas for about 30 feet total length, you can easily visualize how most of the water could be kept out. As of about 10 PM this evening the river was down perhaps 30" from where it went over, but the Swan Pond is still inundated in a large area, and it will remain so for weeks. Many of the areas are not connected, separated by berms of residue or swales, so putting a pump in at one or two places does not drain it all.
Fred, I think you and I are going to have a serious discussion one of these days.
Posted Friday Jun 26, 2009 23:50 # -
I saw the Mosquito Abatement spraying the catch basins today but couldn't find out anything about what they might do for the Bayou in our midst. It's really buzzing around the old Swan Pond which is still inundated.
Posted Monday Jun 29, 2009 12:13 # -
I walked that path this morning. Water looks nice but smells like dead fish. Glad to hear they were spraying the mosquitos. I guess they are waiting for this round of forecasted storms to finish before they pump?
Posted Monday Jun 29, 2009 16:38 # -
Picture - one among many on old Chicago and environs bars - on today's Tribune front page. Check them out. This is a gondola at Meo's Villa Venice on the Desplaines River. Was a big place to take your sweetie in the fifties and earlier. When we have the Arcade Inn and the Riverview Restaurant where the old youth center is now I want the speedboat concession. And don't forget the Rent-a-Swans!
Posted Wednesday Jul 1, 2009 08:17 # -
Images 17-20 are Villa Venice. Could be an idea for a restaurant in the Arcade!
Meo? I guess Giancana's Villa Venice didn't have quite the same ring-a-ding-ding to it.
Posted Wednesday Jul 1, 2009 08:44 # -
I'm sure Mayor Daley has some left over gondolas from his Chicago River Venetian taxi boondoggle. Maybe we can borrow them for the summer.
Posted Wednesday Jul 1, 2009 10:00 # -
Meo-w, Commonsense! Another saucer of cream?
Posted Wednesday Jul 1, 2009 19:49 # -
Don't get me wrong - I LOVE Mayor Daley. I don't agree with everything he does, but where can you get a city that works (for the most part) AND high comedy. Priceless.
Posted Thursday Jul 2, 2009 12:23 #
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