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Friday, June 7, 2013

Peabody at Risk for Significant Flooding Friday Night

Peabody, in particular, is at risk of significant flooding as high tide comes in Friday night combined with heavy rainfall from remnants of Tropical Storm Andrea, according to the National Weather Service.

Significant urban flooding is expected in Peabody on Friday night from the heavy rain that is moving through the area combined with the incoming high tide. The threat of flooding has prompted the National Weather Service to issue a flood warning for urban areas and small streams, particularly flood-prone areas of Peabody, through 11:30 p.m. on Friday. The flood warning was issued because of “heavy rain along the south coast of New England that will affect eastern Massachusetts between 8 and 11 p.m.," says the weather service. "Rainfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour will cause significant urban flooding and may cause some small streams to rise out of their banks.” The intensity of the rain is expected to decrease between 9:30 and 11 p.m. …

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Flood Watch Issued as Tropical Storm Remnants Approach (in Beverly Patch)

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John Castelluccio

7:57 pm on Saturday, June 8, 2013

Yes, Russ. It's a file photo. If you click on the picture, you'll see the caption that says it's from the flash floods in October 2011. Pierpont Street, I believe.   more ›

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Peabody Area Under Flood Advisory Tonight

Watch out for flooding in low lying or flood prone areas tonight.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood advisory for much of Eastern Massachusetts tonight, including Peabody and the North Shore. "At 7:59 p.m. radar indicated a band of thunderstorms moving rapidly northward at 50 mph," the NWS reports. "This band contains heavy rains. The immediate Boston metro area and North Shore should expect a brief period of heavy rains, resulting in ponding of water in low lying and poor drainage areas." The NWS says the thunderstorms should track northward into the North Shore through 9 p.m. The flood advisory is in effect until 11 p.m. According to scanner transmissions, streets in the downtown near Peabody Square, off Margin Street and parts of Route 1 have experienced significant flooding. Motorists …

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Sex Offenders, Blue Lights, Billboards and Flood Maps

All that and more on the City Council's agenda Thursday night.

As the City Council reconvenes Thursday night from its summer recess, a number of weighty issues await councilors. --- Mayor Ted Bettencourt is asking the council to schedule a committee meeting in order to discuss a local sex offender ordinance he is proposing for Peabody, but before he actually submits the proposed law into the public record, he wants a set date. "Once a date has been scheduled for a hearing, I will submit a draft ordinance for review and ask for adoption of same," Bettencourt said in a memo to the council. Bettencourt initially said in June that he would be looking into a local ordinance, and did not reveal many details of his intentions other than to say the law would both restrict where Level 3 sex offenders can live …

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City Council to Get Initial Plan on Local Sex Offender Law, City Working on Local Law to Put Restrictions on Sex Offenders, Bye Bye Winter Parking Ban, and 3 more ›

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10:19 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Sex offenders who abuse children should be tortured and burned at the stake. If science says pedophiles cant be rehabiliated because something is wrong with their brain from birth then they should be instantly executed or locked up for good for ever. Would you hand someone a gun who you know is trigger happy then stand there and see what happens? Thats exactly what society is doing when they let …   more ›

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Peabody Area Should Watch Out for Flooding

National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for the Peabody area, saying up to 4 inches of rain may drench the Tanner City by midday Monday.

It is that time of year again, no matter the relative dry spell recently. The National Weather Service has issued a "Flood Watch" across Southern New England, including the Peabody area, for Sunday into Monday morning. The NWS says up to 4 inches of rain may drench the Tanner City and surrounding communities by midday on Monday. A hazardous weather alert was initially issued early Sunday morning and was upgraded to a "Flood Watch" by noon. "Rain will become heavy at times late this afternoon and tonight. The best chance for heavy rain will be along the east slopes of higher terrain," said the NWS on Sunday. "Flooding of poor drainage and urban areas is anticipated, along with potential small stream flooding. Mainstem rivers are expected to…

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Mayor Shoots to Have Flood Plan Before City Council in May and ADD YOUR PHOTOS: Flash Floods This Morning

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Mayor Shoots to Have Flood Plan Before City Council in May

Bettencourt says there were too many financial and logistical unknowns for him last fall, but with more complete design, many of those issues are clearer.

The biggest concerns for Mayor Ted Bettencourt on the multimillion dollar flood mitigation plan downtown is that the project is done right and that the overall anticipated costs are fully known at the outset. Those two issues led him to apply the brakes to the project as it was gaining steam at the end of his predecessor's tenure in office last year. That's also why Bettencourt hasn't come back to the City Council yet with a financing plan for the first phase of the project since taking office in January. Bettencourt argues that the vote Mayor Michael Bonfanti asked the council for in November was "premature" given the fact that the project design was only 30 percent complete and could still contain many unknown costs. Bonfanti had asked …

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City Council Postpones Vote on Flood Work Bond Until January, City Expects to Save $6.5M on Flood Project, and Still More Work for School Building Committee Before Vote on Higgins

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

City Council Postpones Vote on Flood Work Bond Until January

City councilors sparred Tuesday night over whether to authorize the mayor to be able to borrow $18 million for flood work downtown or wait until January and a new administration to review the numbers.

City councilors voted Tuesday night to postpone any action until at least January on the city’s request to authorize borrowing up to $18 million to move forward on flood work downtown. The decision came despite concerns from city officials that delaying the bond authorization could jeopardize state and federal funding and lead to major delays and expenses for the city. After hearing the latest on the flood plans – particularly the first phase that the city hopes to start construction on in the spring – Mayor-elect Ted Bettencourt asked councilors on the Finance Committee to defer a decision until he can sit down with city finance officials to go over the numbers on the $18 million bond order and projections on other major capital projects …

In this Article:

Bonfanti: Flooding is a Regional Problem, Needs Regional Solution, City Expects to Save $6.5M on Flood Project, UPDATE: Peabody 'Ready to Roll' on Main Street Project, and 1 more ›

Monday, November 28, 2011

City Expects to Save $6.5M on Flood Project

The city is slated to save $6.5 million on the costs otherwise to relocate utility lines downtown for flood work.

City officials knew it could get expensive to relocate utility lines to make way for construction downtown for flood mitigation, but they never imagined the bill would come to just over $6.5 million. According to Mayor Michael Bonfanti, that’s the total amount now estimated to move utility lines – phone, electric, cable and gas – in the vicinity of Peabody Square for the first phase of the flood plan. Bonfanti and Community Development Director Karen Sawyer told the Salem News last week they were shocked upon learning recently of the steep price tag, which would have been 37 percent of the total project cost. Installing new twin culverts from Foster Street down through Peabody Square and over to Wallis Street requires rearranging a thick …

In this Article:

Bonfanti: Flooding is a Regional Problem, Needs Regional Solution, Peabody Municipal Light Plant, and City Streets, Basements Mostly Dry Day Later

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Bonfanti: Flooding is a Regional Problem, Needs Regional Solution

Mayor Michael Bonfanti is once again calling on federal and state officials to realize that Peabody needs significant outside aid to keep the flood waters at bay.

Mayor Michael Bonfanti said the flooding that plagues the downtown every time there’s a bad storm isn’t unique to Peabody and neither should the solution be. “By the way, Salem floods more than the city of Peabody,” Bonfanti told city councilors last week, adding that the neighboring cities have been working closely together on flood mitigation plans. “Salem is now realizing this is really a regional problem,” he said. “So it’s about time we addressed it as a regional problem, especially the financing.” Bonfanti once again called on federal and state officials to realize that – Peabody has been flooding since 1954 – take some leadership and help the cities out. Over the past several years, Peabody has been able to snag grants here and …

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United States Post Office and Peabody Council Reviews $15 Million Flood Plan

Thursday, October 27, 2011

City Council to Hear Update on Flood Plans Tonight

The City Council is scheduled to hear an update on the flood mitigation project downtown tonight from city officials.

City councilors will be hearing another update from city officials on downtown flood mitigation plans tonight prior to the regular council session. The special Committee of the Whole is scheduled for 6:45 p.m. in Wiggin Auditorium at City Hall. Mayor Michael Bonfanti said the presentation is intended as a general update on the first phase of the project -- new twin concrete culverts down Foster Street, which the city hopes to begin construction on next spring. That construction would also go right underneath Peabody Square and necessitate new traffic patterns and relocating the monument in the square. Bonfanti said a bond request for that portion of work will be coming before the council soon, but city officials are not seeking any action …

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Committee Of the Whole Meeting, Peabody City Hall, and Peabody Council Reviews $15 Million Flood Plan

Thursday, October 20, 2011

SBA Opens Second Disaster Loan Center in Beverly

SBA opens a second Disaster Loan Outreach Center today at Beverly High School for flood victims.

The U.S. Small Business Administration announced yesterday that it was opening a second Disaster Loan Outreach Center in Beverly due to the high volume of physical and economic losses suffered by severe storms and flooding earlier this month. The SBA issued a disaster declaration for Essex County on Oct. 13. Peabody residents and business owners – city officials tallied damage to 100 homes and 20 businesses on Oct. 4 – can make their way over to Beverly High School – 100 Sohier Rd. in Beverly – starting at 9 a.m. today when the center opens. Just as at the Salem center, which opened on Monday, SBA representatives will be on hand to accept applications for low-interest disaster loans and answer any questions. The Beverly center hours are …

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UPDATE: Downtown Streets Still Underwater, SBA Offers Loans to Flood Victims, City Streets, Basements Mostly Dry Day Later, and 1 more ›

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