Rather than call my Councilmember (Jay Benanav) to find out what’s going on, I’ve been thinking of how else one could get a public employee (public servant?) to do the job they are paid to do. Any thoughts? One image I have is of having my neighbors all come together at the site of the blinking warning light and issue a proclamation that we won’t pay our city taxes that go for fire protection until we receive proper service. This seems too over-the-top though. I’m more interesed in adopting the least drastic and bombastic method to have the hydrant repaired/replaced. I’m willing to be educated about how the backlog of repairing fire hydrants is two years, but you would then have to tell me why that is true. I also have thought that maybe mid-block fire hydrants are being phased out if there already is another fire hyrdrant within a certain distance away–but then why didn’t they just cover up the spot and take away the warning flasher?
Something Curious To Me
Nov 24 2005 — 2:00am
2 Reader Comments
3:33 pm
Interesting idea about the possible phase out of the mid-block hydrants. If true, it would explain a lot. In Brooklyn Park, I couldn’t figure out why a set of tennis courts on top of the water works tanks was being left to decay dreadfully. The playing surface was terrible. Six months later, they were torn out as part of a project to greatly expand the size of the tanks. New courts were added at a new nearby park (within a mile or so). So it made sense that the old ones weren’t maintained, but it looked like no one cared.
8:54 am
The Code that mandates the placement of hydrants is revised regularly to take technology and modern fire fighting methods into account. If you call the Fire Department or Fire Marshall I’ll bet they’ll be more than happy to explain it in excruciating detail.
SB (formerly in Civil Engineering)