Action News checked 100 ditches across the city including. We found roughly 30% were completed improperly.
Much of it is due to construction. But who is overseeing that road ditches are repaired correctly?
City Streets Department Supervisor Steven Lorenze said plumbers are supposed to fill the ditches with dirt and make a temporary patch with asphalt and then submit a backfill card to his department to finish. The investigative team requested city records for backfill cards. We then traveled the streets of Philadelphia to double-check the Streets Department's work. We wanted to see that completed ditch repairs were done correctly.
Ditch after ditch we found problems. We came across road ditches with weeds growing out of them, others with clear temporary patches, and a slew of others three to four inches above or below grade."With regards to dirt," he said, "dirt with grass growing out of it, that's just not acceptable." Larkin and his neighbors went to Councilman Mark Squilla's office for help but it hasn't been enough. So he turned to the Action News.
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