Jennifer Pence couldn’t hold back tears at the groundbreaking ceremony for the flood elimination project on Maple Avenue.<\/p>\n
“To be here and be a part of it, it means the world to me,” Pence said.<\/p>\n
Watch Pence explain what the project will mean for her neighborhood: <\/p>\n
Norwood neighbors shed tears of joy as $2.3 million flood control project begins<\/p>\n
The emotional reaction is understandable when you see what Pence and her neighbors have endured during heavy rains. Our previous reporting from 2016<\/a> and 2021<\/a> shows water rushing through the neighborhood, turning streets into rivers and damaging homes.<\/p>\n “I want to thank you, Mayor Schneider, for finally making this happen,” Pence said after being called up to the microphone during the ceremony. <\/p>\n Jennifer Pence\/Provided<\/p>\n Norwood, Ohio yards and streets were flooded after heavy rains that moved through the Tri-State area June 30, 2021.<\/p>\n Linda Moeggenberg | WCPO file<\/p>\n NORWOOD, OHIO. Aug. 28, 2016. Street flooding near Elsmere and Ashland avenues in Norwood, Ohio<\/p>\n The project, which is expected to be completed by November 2026, will install larger pipes and direct water into a controlled retention basin.<\/p>\n Clint Zimmerman, Norwood Public Works superintendent, said the finished project will mostly be out of view from residents.<\/p>\n \u201cIt will back up into that retention basin as designed, but it should flow out at a steady pace, over the course of an hour, hour and a half, on typical large, heavy rain,\u201d Zimmerman said.<\/p>\n Public Works had to relocate some public utilities to make way for the larger pipe.<\/p>\n Watch our previous reporting of flooding in the neighborhood: <\/p>\n WATCH: Tri-State flooded out of homes<\/p>\n Norwood Mayor Victor Schneider acknowledged the long wait residents have endured.<\/p>\n “I know it’s been a long time coming, and you’ve had probably a lot of sleepless nights, and every time a storm comes through, you wonder if it’s going to be flooding your home,\u201d Schneider said. \u201cHopefully this, it’s an end to some of those worries, and you can rest easy.” <\/p>\n Andrew Rowan\/WCPO<\/p>\n For Pence, the moment was bittersweet. Her late parents lived with the flooding problems for years, but didn’t live to see the solution.<\/p>\n “To see this finally happen, it’s just, I feel like they’d both be proud of me for getting this done,” said Pence.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORWOOD, Ohio \u2014 It\u2019s not every day that you see happy tears being shed over a sewer project.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[3410,192,3411,79,3412],"class_list":["post-2863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-cincinnati-news","tag-environment","tag-finding-solutions","tag-science","tag-wcpo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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