First Responders Work to Reopen Flooded Road in Bristol Twp

Jeff Bohen

5 years ago

Digital Reporter – Jeff Bohen

As the rain came down in buckets last night with flood alerts in place, Bristol Township officials closed State Road down in Croydon around 7 30 p.m, due to flooding.

Township Fire Marshal;/Emergency Management Director Kevin Dippolito. said “Flooding occurred along State Rd and was going in to a sewer well causing the pumps to run continuously”

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Posts and images to various social media pages, Croydonites frequent presented a sort of tick-tock of the storms wrath and questions about what was to come.

Fire Crews from Third District and Bristol Consolidated pumped out the low lying area until the top of the wet well was above water, Dippolito said.

Posts and images to various social media pages, Croydonites frequent, presented a tick-tock of the storms wrath.

Meanwhile, Dippolito used the resources of private business and government to remedy the flooding.

“I contacted Old Castle Concrete in Croydon and obtained a 48″ diameter, 8′ high, 8000 lb. concrete pipe to put over the well inlet to protect it from the surrounding water until the drainage problem can be rectified. Rob’s Towing brought the pipe to the scene and lowered it in to position,” the fire marshal explained via an early morning E-mail exchange.

The road was officially reopened “around midnight” the fire marshal said.

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Publisher/Editor Alex Gross contributed to this report