By STAFF
LEBANON SPRINGS–Tomorrow Saturday, July 1 volunteers and community members are gathering to help neighbors clean up their yards from the silt, stones and debris left behind from the flooding incident in Lebanon Springs Thursday, June 29. Those able to help are asked to come to Town Hall at 10 a.m. tomorrow (or later in the day, just park at town hall and walk over to Main Street and join the crews working.) Bring work gloves, rakes, shovels and wheelbarrows if available. Many hands make light work and this is an opportunity for the community to come together and help, according to a press release put out by Town Hall.
Property owners who suffered damage and have not yet been contacted by Supervisor Tistrya Houghtling regarding yard clean up, should contact 518-505-1535 or supervisor@townofnewlebanon.com to be added to the clean up list.
Thanks go to Fire Chief Steve Houghtling and LVPA President and Town of New Lebanon Emergency Management Officer Ed Godfroy. They hiked up a mountain to find out where the water had come from and the town is appreciative of the hard work and sweat that went into locating the site. The culprit was a pond that emptied down the mountain and deep ravine and onto Main Street where it intersects with Poole Hill Road and Old Mountain Road.
The town supervisor has contacted Massachusetts officials and they have already started mitigating the situation to ensure that this doesn’t happen again. They are putting infrastructure in place so that when the beavers rebuild the dam, which they have already started working on, the water will have outlets to flow so that it won’t build up, the release said.
