What do you get for your taxes?

Everyone remembers the summer of 2020 when we had several severe storms pop up and cause damage all over the east coast. A big discussion at that time was infrastructure and stormwater systems an designs. Government always trying to solve the problem when most of the time they are the problem. In this particular instance they absolutely are the cause and the problem. Residents know the borough does not take ownership of alley's between streets which many residents use for parking or rear access to their home. The paving in most alley's is not in good shape but to be expected. It's tough to get all residents of that particular alley to chip in. But what about the stormwater system? That is owned by Perkasie Borough. A few years back the public works department use to collect trash in the alley's which over time got to be an issue with residents not maintaining debris, tree limbs etc so the truck could get through. So the borough started picking up trash at the front of the properties. However years of the trash truck using the alley definitely caused damage as these alley's when paved are not to spec to handle large trucks. They maybe have 2" of asphalt on stone. Below you will see an inlet that has settled causing stormwater run off to go around the inlet and across residents properties. This is the results of that water not going into the storm inlet where it should. Council representatives were made aware of the issue an we were told that it would be fixed properly. Count down almost a year later from Aug 4 2020 to now this was the public works directors solution. We expected better since his former career was many years with a well named outfit in the area H&K.

By winter time the cold patch will be down the end of the alley but even more importantly here is an updated video with the stormwater runoff still doing the same thing it did originally. So why did it take almost a year to do just this? So we ask again who is running your town and what do we get for the tax dollars we pay? Eroded yards? Flooded homes? Who is steering the ship? This is what failure at all levels in our local government looks like folks. Perkasie First