Go with McCormick Taylor’s recommendations, like creating more storage ponds, expanding and stabilizing stream banks, upping capacity of existing pipes and culverts (read: drainage tunnels) and adding underground “pipe farms” and storage vaults to divert water away post-flood. The nonprofit says each would keep all of historic Ellicott City’s structures intact, including the ones set to be removed on low-lying Main Street that house popular businesses like the Phoenix Emporium and Bean Hollow, and some would also add new tourist appeal while still allowing space for water to flow through. His orgnaization has some other ideas for what to do. Redding says the county should “take a step back” and work with preservationists and others more closely on its plan before carrying it out. Howard County’s report does note that the government was “in the process of designing and engineering” four projects recommended in the McCormick Taylor study when this year’s Memorial Day weekend flood hit that flood has since “shifted the conversation in dealing with this issue,” the county’s report said. Preservation Maryland’s report noted the McCormick Taylor hydrology study that Howard County paid for after the 2016 flood doesn’t make any references to demolition as an option. Purple represents eight feet of water or more dark red represents six to eight feet of water light red represents four to six feet. Here’s the baseline (left) model from 2016 paired with the planned model with the buildings removed. The group also pointed to models referenced in the county’s recently published study of all its options, saying “by the study’s own admission,” flooding on Lower Main Street-the area hit hardest in 20-”may only be reduced from 6′-8′ to 4′-6′.” “Having the buildings in place and being able to tell that story about Ellicott City, perhaps if it’s no longer commercially viable, at least in that area, is still a much better alternative,” said the nonprofit’s executive director, Nicholas Redding, in an interview. In a report published yesterday, Preservation Maryland criticized the county’s reliance on demolition as a flood-mitigation strategy, saying it “could come at an extremely significant cost to the economic well-being of the district” and could cause the town to lose its National Register of Historic Places designation. While Rufenacht has drank more than 99 single beers since becoming a patron, she is the only one of her friends who does not have a 99 Beer Club plaque.A group of preservationists says that’s not true, however. “It’s the place where everyone knows your name, that’s why I love it,” she said. One soldier who was setting off on deployment got his name on the wall in under two weeks, Hemmis said.Ĭori Rufenacht, 31, started going to the Phoenix when she turned 21. Some people get their name on the wall in a matter of months, others years. All of the binders were lost in the 2016 flood, calling for the need to move to a card system. It’s a way for the bar to rotate its stock and for people to try beers they might otherwise not.Ĭustomers used to be tracked in three-ring binders, filling out what beer they had when they came in. While the Phoenix offers 150 different kinds of beer, customers only have to try 99 of them to be part of the club. I’ll be back for sure.” (Jen Rynda / Baltimore Sun Media Group) You pick a spot where you feel comfortable and you learn to cope, try to maintain. “No matter where, every place has some natural disasters. “It may be a long while, but I can move things, and as long as I have space I can work,” Berkowitz says. Work tables, an easel and a professional light table floated around, while photo albums atop it were not even wet. Same for several display pieces and thousands of dollars’ worth of art glass in crates ringing the room. But within, a dozen historic windows from the Congressional Golf Course dining room in Bethesda, originally commissioned by President Franklin Roosevelt, were in the studio for restoration during the flood and did just fine. This time, while their building survived, the studio was gutted when the Tiber broke through. Great Panes has been in residence there since 1984, and on Main Street for 37 years.Ī 2011 flood left 3½ feet of water in the basement, whose mortar Berkowitz then had repointed, and the county did the same on the other side of the wall he shares with Tiber Park. The sturdy granite freestanding building, which they own, dates back to the 1830s. I fit in,” says the designer/fabricator/restorer of custom art glass, a partner in Great Panes with his wife, Sherry Fackler-Berkowitz. There’s no doubt in Len Berkowitz’s mind: he simply would not have been as successful if it were not for Ellicott City’s Main Street.
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