There was a RECORD FLOOD September 14, 2008 that shut down the Borman Expressway I-80/94 in Northwest Indiana for at least 5 days! The water was 12 FEET DEEP. The Army Corp of Engineers (ACOE) did not complete nor properly build the levee that runs along the expressway and in the backyards of hardworking homeowners. HUNDREDS of homes and businesses were flooded because of breaches in the levee and the ignorance of the ACOE and the Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission (LCRBDC). The ACOE chose not to raise the Northcote Bridge that sits between Munster and Hammond Indiana. There is NO operation and maintenance (O&M)plan in place to keep the river free of debris or to sandbag should there be eminient danger of flooding. The levee is complete in some areas and there is still no O&M in place. Residents have been fighting for MONTHS and MONTHS to enforce the WRDA of 2007 requesting that the Governor and Senators of IN request an independent review of the project. We have even gone to the Lt General Robert L. Van Antwerp of the ACOE in Washington DC to request a review. March 2009 is soon approaching and NOTHING, I MEAN NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE to continue the re-building and building of the levee and HUNDREDS of homeowners will be in the same boat………and I mean BOAT(S) if something isn’t done soon.
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There was a RECORD FLOOD September 14, 2008 that shut down the Borman Expressway I-80/94 in Northwest Indiana for at least 5 days! The water was 12 FEET DEEP. The Army Corp of Engineers (ACOE) did not complete nor properly build the levee that runs along the expressway and in the backyards of hardworking homeowners. HUNDREDS of homes and businesses were flooded because of breaches in the levee and the ignorance of the ACOE and the Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission (LCRBDC). The ACOE chose not to raise the Northcote Bridge that sits between Munster and Hammond Indiana. There is NO operation and maintenance (O&M)plan in place to keep the river free of debris or to sandbag should there be eminient danger of flooding. The levee is complete in some areas and there is still no O&M in place. Residents have been fighting for MONTHS and MONTHS to enforce the WRDA of 2007 requesting that the Governor and Senators of IN request an independent review of the project. We have even gone to the Lt General Robert L. Van Antwerp of the ACOE in Washington DC to request a review. March 2009 is soon approaching and NOTHING, I MEAN NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE to continue the re-building and building of the levee and HUNDREDS of homeowners will be in the same boat………and I mean BOAT(S) if something isn’t done soon.