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Topic: 318% TAX INCREASE by Mayor Vern Rasmussen Jr, LEGACY DESTROYED IN ALBERT LEA, MN< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
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The City of Albert Lea FLOODS A NEIGHBORHOOD FOR FOUR DECADES and now wants to increase the Assessments on that Neighborhood by 318% since 2003.. Are they MAD?

The Albert Lea Water and Sewer funding of this project increased by only 6% since 2003..

In the 1970's due to poor storm sewer infrastructure and flooding on S Broadway, a storm sewer line was ran to the Virginia Place Lift Station overwhelming the pumps and ever since has been flooding that neighborhood ..

2003 Feasibility Report calls for $135,000 in Assessments.. Job was never done..

Flooding is still allowed to continue..

2015 Feasibility Report calls for $429,000 in Assessments..

Still nothing included to address the faulty sized pumps that continue to allow periodic and severe flooding in the Virginia Place neighborhood after 40 years of neglect by the City of Albert Lea..

Sh!t is going to hit the fan if this proposal is allowed to stand without concessions being made by the City..

Public Hearing Tuesday May 26, 2015 7:00pm Regarding The Virginia Place And 5th Street Reconstruction Project (Job 1557)

City Council Chambers at the City Center, 3rd Floor, 221 East Clark Street.
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Red Storm Sewer line comes from Broadway Ave and then goes to the Virginia Place Lift Station..

Yellow Storm Sewer line comes from the Virginia Place Lift Station and 5th Street and then goes North on Broadway Ave..

Big Red Star shows the beginning of line.. Big Yellow Star shows its from Virginia Pl..

The Broadway storm sewer line going north is in Poor condition and backs up during heavy rain and needs to be replaced according to the Feasibility Report.. The same report says the size of the pipes going to the pumps are fine, the pumps can't keep up with the flows..

The pumps are too small or after the pumps the sewer lines are too small.. I also think the city has continued to increase the volume sent to the pumps.. They are designed to pump 10,400 gallons per minute if working properly.. This City really doesn't have one person that can troubleshoot a lift station.. Call in a contractor..

I sure would like to know about the line that crosses Broadway from the same location and then goes to Front St, then heads West..

My house was built in 1969.. I can't see someone building in a flood prone neighborhood.. Pavement was last done in 1963..

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I have just figured out where the City has been going wrong for decades and will make it public in front of the City Council on May 26th..
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Will you need bail $$$?

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The red line is a 27" storm sewer line..

If there is an 18" or larger storm sewer line coming from the 6th St area that drains about 5 blocks and then you add on all the storm sewer on Virginia Place and the Park.. The City is sending more Storm Sewage than the Lift Station was designed to handle at peak times..

I get a kick out of people at the City that say its a soil problem as they send storm sewage at a rate of 100's of thousands of gallons per hour to a little neighborhood.

What does it have to do with the soil? :dunce:  If you keep flooding any neighborhood you'll have soil problems.. Bricks can't float, they sink..

I sure hope not SB..
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Very sincerely, good luck.

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Proposal to go before the Albert Lea City Council..

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Just had the Albert Lea Police Department pay me a friendly visit moments ago.. The officer said my email to the mayor was close to being a terroristic threat but also said the potholes are some of the worst he has seen in town..

Maybe now they'll fill'em.. :dunno:
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"The squeaky wheel gets the grease", you damn terrorist

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Wow, agreeing with Expat
Yep, nothing but a terrorist :D
Give 'em hell. :cool:

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