{"id":4774,"date":"2011-09-08T09:58:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T13:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4774"},"modified":"2011-09-08T09:58:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T13:58:22","slug":"morning-read-are-homeowners-to-blame-for-some-of-irenes-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/09\/08\/morning-read-are-homeowners-to-blame-for-some-of-irenes-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Are homeowners to blame for some of Irene&#8217;s damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/johnsburg-may-take-residents-to-task-on-flooding-issues\/article_50964f96-d98b-11e0-9422-001cc4c03286.html\">Glens Falls Post-Star is reporting<\/a> that local officials in the Adirondack town of Johnsburg think private homeowners behaving irresponsibly may be to blame for some of Irene&#8217;s impacts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Local officials said on Wednesday that much of the recurring damage was caused by improperly maintained private culverts and ponds that backed up and flooded nearby roads.<\/p>\n<p>The town has seen &#8220;damage reoccur over and over again because of something on private property,&#8221; said Sterling Goodspeed, the town&#8217;s supervisor. &#8220;It isn&#8217;t fair for the entire tax base to carry the burden of the repair costs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Local officials say half of the major wash-outs in Johnsburg were caused by improper infrastructure on private property next to publicly owned infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think:\u00a0 Should homeowners and businesses be held to a higher standard?\u00a0 Comments welcome below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Glens Falls Post-Star is reporting that local officials in the Adirondack town of Johnsburg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,884,5602,6523,6538],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4775,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774\/revisions\/4775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}