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Condo built on mud island now faces flood threat - again!
The Venice Island lofts, a condo complex built on a muddy island in the Schuylkill, are at risk for flooding again ... again.
Condo built on mud island now faces flood threat — again!
This just in: The City Managing Director's Office of Emergency Management is recommending that the Venice Loft apartments residents voluntarily evacuate their building in preparation for possible flooding tonight and into tomorrow. This comes from a press release sent out by the office of Councilman Curtis Jones Jr:
This rainfall may cause flash flooding of low lying areas; such as Manayunk, streams, creeks and moderate flooding on the Schuylkill River. Therefore, there is a recommendation of voluntarily evacuation for residents of Venice Loft, located at 4601 Flat Rock Road. Once again, the flood storm is anticipated to crest at over 12feet by tomorrow, Friday, March 11th at noon.
Now, if this sounds oddly familiar, it should: The apartments were infamously flooded while under construction, as you can see in these pictures from 2006.
In fact, as the Inquirer reported last October, when the apartments flooded again, the project had been initially blocked by a judge who ruled it "too great a risk to human life and property."
Despite that ruling, the development proceeded. When the complex flooded last October, developer Carl Dranoff told the Inky that [not his quote] "the structures were built to withstand the flooding that occurs on the Schuylkill every five or 10 years. The development includes a bridge that allows people to leave, and machinery was placed on higher levels."
And [his quote] "The buildings are performing exactly as planned ... Every precaution was taken in the design of the buildings. There's no harm to people."
Unless our math is off. it's been slightly less than ten years since October 2010 — we'll see if the Venice Lofts flood this time.
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