East Main Street Alley - Southside

The East Main alley to the South is a bit challenging at times. The standing water, potholes, combined with delivery trucks take a toll. The town does its best to grade it.

Photo of ponding on Barnwood Drive

Alley between S. Gunnison Ave. and S. San Juan Ave.

There is a lateral ditch that crosses the alley, running from a yard in the 300 block of S. San Juan to our yard and then up to the corner of S. Gunnison and Mill St. The ditch is channelled across the alley via a small culvert. When leaves, tree debris, rocks, etc. block the culvert, the water backs up into the yard facing S. San Juan and eventually floods the alley. The alley surface is very low where the culvert crosses, so even when the culvert is open (and in fact dry), a significant amount of water ponds just…