Thursday, February 28, 2013
County officials have nearly finalized a new design for one of Ellicott City's crumbled retaining walls.
A fix is nearing approval for a retaining wall that collapsed in the fall of 2011, destroying several cars and blocking parking spaces and the view to a local business, according to county officials. The design for the wall's reconstruction will see a total of seven parking spaces lost, according to Steve Sharar, chief of the Transportation and Special Projects Division of Public Works. A public hearing is scheduled for March 12 at 7:30 p.m. in front of the Board of Public Works to discuss the design of a new retaining wall at the intersection of Mulligans Hill Lane and St. Paul Street, according Sharar. For updates on this and other Ellicott City news, sign up for the Ellicott City Patch newsletter The March hearing will focus on whether…
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Friday, August 17, 2012
The department of public works is working with St. Paul's Church on a rehabbed retaining wall.
Residents interested in a preview of how the county will rebuild the retaining wall that collapsed last fall can get a sneak peek next week. The department of public works will preview the plan it is developing on Tuesday, Aug. 21, at the Ellicott City Revitalization Town Hall meeting, according to Steve Sharar, chief of transportation and special projects at the department of public works. The county has allocated $1.25 million to the design and construction of retaining walls that require "prompt action," according to Public Works Deputy Director Mark DeLuca About 75 percent of the cost of design and construction of the Mulligans Lane wall is being funded by FEMA, DeLuca said. Sharar said that the county is negotiating with St. Paul’s …
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
The county is working to accomodate the church that sits above the collapsed wall.
Howard County is still entertaining its options for restoration of a retaining wall that collapsed in Ellicott City during Tropical Storm Lee, according to a county official. In mid-June, Howard County Public Works Deputy Director Mark DeLuca said that the plan was to keep all of the parking spots in the county lot at the intersection of St. Paul Street, Maryland Avenue and Mulligan’s Hill Lane, where the wall collapsed. Wednesday afternoon, however, he said that the current plan might see the loss of a couple of the metered spaces. Although the county was “satisfied” that it, not St. Paul’s Church, owned the portion of the wall that collapsed, DeLuca said the updated plans were in part, to accommodate the church. The church sits at the …
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Despite the reports that Main Street was closed during last September's Tropical Storm Lee and the resulting floods, many businesses remained open. “People were waiting in the store for the roads to clear,” said Caitlin Mullet, who was working at Sweet Elizabeth Jane during the storm. The Tiber River flows directly underneath the store and when it rose, Mullet said, employees and customers could hear tree limbs banging on the underside of the building as they were swept towards the Patapsco. Though it wasn’t all business as usual, other stores remained open too, including Insight 180, a small consulting and design firm on Main Street. Recently featured on the Department of Business and Economic Development’s MDBizMedia, the company’s as-…
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Howard County has secured federal funds to help pay for the numerous recovery projects still pending after Tropical Storm Lee.
With temperatures in the 60s and clear, sunny skies, people who did not suffer severe damage have stopped thinking about the flooding and wind damage from August and September storms. But not the Howard County Office of Emergency Management. The office has secured assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency through a cost-share program. FEMA will cover 75 percent of the cost of repairing properties damaged during Tropical Storm Lee and its aftermath. There is no set limit to available funds, according to Gene Mellin at the Howard County Office of Emergency Management. Initially Howard County did not qualify for the program because there was a question as to whether some of the damaged properties were actually county-owned. “…
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Detours will be in effect while crews restore a sidewalk damaged during Tropical Storm Lee, stores will remain open.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
There’s still plenty of work to be done to remedy damage from Tropical Storm Lee. Beginning Monday, the County plans to begin work stabilizing the sidewalk on Main Street between Rogers Avenue and Ellicott Mills Drive. The repairs will fix damage that occurred during floods brought on by Lee. During construction, Main Street will be closed to all but local traffic. Shops will remain open for business. A detour will direct all other drivers around the work area from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. on weekdays. The detour will take eastbound Main Street traffic onto Rogers Avenue, Court House Drive and Ellicott Mills Drive. Westbound traffic will be detoured to Ellicott Mills Drive, Courthouse Drive, then Rogers avenue. County officials say the project …
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9:18 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
Steve said that the plan right now is to use as many as the original stones as possible to help comply with the scenic roads mandate. They're stil there ... just under a pile of other rocks. And grass. The cars were removed, though. After they started smoldering: patch.com/A-mbyz more ›