King County has allowed Evans Creek to flow down NE 50th ST and my driveway. They have completely ignored the fact this creek use to be a Salmon spawning creek! 10/16/17 The weatherman said today is the last sunny day for a while, since it's suppose to rain for six days straight!! 

I wonder how flooded I'll get or if I'll even be able to get home?!

Posted on my blog... https://arlenesflooding.blogspot.com

Evans Creek overflowing around the sewer manhole cover and onto NE 50th ST.  

 at NE 50th ST Redmond and my driveway 1:30pm 10/16/17.

Dec 8, 2007 8:32am going out my driveway

 

Dec 8, 2007 8:32am going out my driveway.... fun huh?

Dec 8, 2007 8:28am NE 50th St and Evans Creek bridge and you can see my mailbox.

The post office knocked my mailbox down so they would not have to look through the mail for anything for me! I have NOT had mail delivery at my residence for a few years!!

Oh but wait... they drive right by my driveway to deliver mail to the neighbors!

Yes they drive right through the flooding but I don't get mail because of the flooding!!!

My Flooding

My Flooding - off Hwy202 and NE 50th ST

This flooding is nothing I have created! The flooding of my driveway has caused the below issues:

(The responses I've gotten from Kathy Lambert are not helpful to fix or even try to help with the flooding King County has caused for me!)  

My furnace is broken and needs repair.  Genesee Energy, whom I have a service contract with, refused to come up my driveway on Thursday 9/21/2017 to start my furnace! 

The post office has stopped delivering my mail!

The local firemen walked up to my place in their hip boots and told me if I needed them they would not come!

The telephone repair person would not come up the driveway and there was 3' of water to get to the repair box.

AAA would not come up and fix my flat tire!

Repair people will not come out and once they see the driveway flooding, they refuse to come up the driveway!!  No one wants to come up my driveway! It's the same thing with my dryer!!

This link needs to be checkout... it's how this flooding all started:

Read about Sahalee Way and it's failure.http://www.iinet.com/~shs/sahaleeway.html

This is the response I received fromKing County Councilmember
Kathy Lambert's  office  

                         September 19, 2017

Hi Ms. Ritzhaupt:

Thank you for writing to Councilmember Lambert on this concern. I reach out to the King County Road Services Division (RSD) and the County Water and Land Resources Division (WLRD) regarding the reoccurring flooding that takes place at this location.  Unfortunately, the flooding on the creek is naturally occurring, and WLRD does not have a program that would allow the county to reduce that flooding.  Additionally, the volume count of the traffic on this roadway is low compared to other roadways, and the detour route during the road closure is less than one mile in length.  Because of these two factors, this project does not rate high on RSD’s priority list of road drainage problems as many other roadways carry many thousands of motorists each day and/or the detour routes are considerably longer. 

The challenge there are not enough funds to go around, and this project did not compete well against other roadway projects when the RSD looked into this previously.  Since that time, the RSD now faces a massive funding shortfall that is causing them to not even do basic maintenance such as pothole repairs … which means that a roadway drainage project such as this one is even less likely occur now.  I know this is far from ideal, and I recognize that the flooding directly impacts your driveway.  I do wish I had a better answer for you.  Unfortunately, despite Councilmember Lambert’s efforts to advocate for a solution to this ongoing problem, the department staff has indicated that there is not much that county can do to alleviate the situation.  I’m very sorry I do not have better news to report. 

Sincerely,

April Sanders

Policy Director | King County Councilmember Kathy Lambert

516 Third Ave, Room 1200 | Seattle, WA 98104

Office - 206.477.0932

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