This should be the year where follow-through occurs. Two weeks ago we were to have two meetings of the defunct by design Ethics Review Board. But when the dates of the meetings arrive -- the board still doesn't meet.
They blinked.
City de-ices Hazelwood house's problem leak - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Pittsburgh's 'redd up' crews Friday shattered a threatening mass of ice that was growing from a vacant Hazelwood home.This is sad. This is a trend. The other house in Hazlewood burned and cause damage to other houses that were NOT empty -- until then.
Fed by a leaky water pipe inside the house on Orinoco Street, the ice threatened to flood Beryl Powers' home next door on Steele Court.
Powers, 69, complained repeatedly about the problem to the city's 311 response line since Jan. 29, but received no satisfaction.
A story published yesterday in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review illustrated Powers' problem and spurred city officials to respond quickly.
Repeated requests of citizens went without action of the city.
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City de-ices Hazelwood house's problem leak
By Jeremy Boren
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Pittsburgh's "redd up" crews Friday shattered a threatening mass of ice that was growing from a vacant Hazelwood home.
Fed by a leaky water pipe inside the house on Orinoco Street, the ice threatened to flood Beryl Powers' home next door on Steele Court.
Powers, 69, complained repeatedly about the problem to the city's 311 response line since Jan. 29, but received no satisfaction.
A story published yesterday in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review illustrated Powers' problem and spurred city officials to respond quickly.
Crews removed the ice and shut off water flowing to the empty house. The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority had partially turned off the water Jan. 30.
Asked if the city responded quickly enough to Powers' complaint, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said, "I think we were out there with the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority as quickly as we could be.
"The weather was certainly a deterrent. I know there were at least a half-dozen water breaks today."
Ravenstahl said the city would make efforts to find the owner, Jason R. Abel, who is delinquent on his property taxes. Abel could not be reached for comment.
"That's the least we can do in government, to try to enact laws and ordinances that will hold residents accountable for their property and make them keep up their property," Ravenstahl said.
Jeremy Boren can be reached at jboren@tribweb.com or (412) 765-2312.
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