[net-gold] UNITED STATES: CITIES: BALTIMORE, MARYLAND: Residents Displaced by Landslide Blame City, CSX for Inaction Despite Warnings
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- Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 08:02:16 -0400 (EDT)
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UNITED STATES: CITIES: BALTIMORE, MARYLAND:
Residents Displaced by Landslide
Blame City, CSX for Inaction Despite Warnings
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Residents Displaced by Landslide
Blame City, CSX for Inaction Despite Warnings
Assessing stability of street could take 40 days; residents say they've
been complaining for years
May 01, 2014
By Kevin Rector, Yvonne Wenger and Joe Burris
The Baltimore Sun
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2014-05-01/news/
bs-md-csx-collapse-folo-20140501_1_railroad-residents-retaining-wall
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/kc2tg8b
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Forced to evacuate his rowhouse on East 26th Street after the street
collapsed in a pile of dirt, asphalt and parked automobiles on the
adjacent train tracks, Jack Temple said he's living in "limbo."
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Temple and about 20 other Charles Village residents face up to 40 days
away from their homes while city engineers assess imagery from
ground-penetrating radar a kind of ultrasound for the earth to gauge the
structural integrity of the street and the 19 homes that were evacuated.
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City officials plan to host a resource fair and offer displaced residents
food vouchers, hotel stays and shelter for their pets, but Temple called
it inadequate. Neighborhood residents repeatedly warned city and CSX
Transportation officials for years about the street's deterioration, he
said, and no one listened until the retaining wall above the tracks gave
out and the whole block melted away before their eyes.
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"They knew the problem was there. They waited so long, and now they're
saying they want to do this ultrasound and spend all these resources?"
said Temple, a 28-year-old restaurant manager. "It's too late. Now we're
going to be out of our houses. I have no idea what we're going to do. A
resource center is great, but I guarantee they can't give anyone enough.
Enough would be our homes back."
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Despite years of complaints about the tilt toward the tracks along the
south side of East 26th Street and cracks in the road, few visible repairs
were ever made apart from a few patch jobs, residents said Thursday.
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City and railroad officials offered few answers Thursday about what
happened, why complaints went unaddressed and who was responsible for the
integrity of the retaining wall that collapsed.
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"We are going through a lot of information," Mayor Stephanie
Rawlings-Blake said Thursday afternoon. "At the end of the day, the
citizens hold me accountable. I am holding my agencies accountable."
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The last structural analysis of the area was done in April and May of last
year, when the city sent cameras into underground utility pipes and sewers
to evaluate the area's stability and found it to be structurally sound,
according to mayoral spokesman Kevin Harris. However, no documents or
reports on that study were available on Thursday.
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"They are still pulling reports," Harris said.
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Last year's review came in response to residents' complaints, said
Rawlings-Blake, who said the key question is "what transpired last year to
this year to cause that street to collapse?"
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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