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Current Sewage Issues 3-27-2007-05 Pictures of 1200 Grant Street with the ground caving in. 3-27-2007-04 Here's what happens in a city with
competent leadership: Grant Street 3-9-2007-06
Another City-caused HOMEOWNER tragedy
in Iron Mountain.
This time it's an 88 year old widow
of a deceased city employee. Location: 1200 Grant St.
The facts:
A water main breaks in the street in front of her house. Her basement
gets flooded with over 3 feet of water and 9 inches of mud. The city
crews shut off the main, repair the break, and pump the water out of her
basement. They bring in heaters into the basement to dry the mud.
That's exactly what any competent and compassionate city crew should do.
Enter City Manager John Marquart
into the picture. He orders the heaters to be taken out and have all
city employees leave the site. The furnace was damaged beyond repair by
the 3 feet of water. The son of the widow had to get a furnace company
to put in a new furnace quickly. He shoveled enough mud so the new
furnace could be installed. A washer, dryer and hot water heater are
also reportedly permanently damaged.
According to Marquart, the
city isn't responsible, same as the Rob Giguerre sewer back-up.
How an 88 year old widow is
somehow responsible for a main water line breaking in front of her
house, unless she was playing with dynamite 8 feet below the pavement,
is hard to explain. But Marquart is somehow pinning
the blame on her. He is stuck because helping her out would jeopardize
the lawsuit the city is facing in the Giguerre case.
Her homeoner's policy won't pay, her agent
said, because the cause was OBVIOUSLY a city failure.
That's it, friends and neighbors.
That's how much compassion Marquart has for the widows of city
employees. Absolutely disgusting!!!!
Flesheim Street 2-28-2007-04
RE: The sewage poured into the house
on Flesheim Street by the City crews
The City of Iron Mountain is acting like the
dictators they are on the sewage backflow issue. It wasn't raining
that day, so the storm didn't cause the back up. Everybody agrees
it was caused by forcing water under high pressure into the sewer system
to flush it out. Did anybody call in to complain they had a
problem along that sewer line? Not that we've read in the paper.
The city claims the owner could have
insurance for this problem, yet less than 5% of the homeowner policies
include it. Iron Mountain has often paid such claims in the past.
I don't have sewage backup insurance.
I also don't have insurance against police accidentally firing and
breaking my windows, either.
I hope the guy whose house was ravaged
throws in a healthy claim for mental anguish, too.
It's hard to total up all the stupid things
that have been done by this City Council and City Manager in the last
three years. I'm making a list and saving it for election time.
I've already got a dozen major issues, and more than that in minor ones.
I can't wait to lambast this miserable riff raff as the fall election
approaches.
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