(Update from 2012 report "Seismic Event near Maple Avenue; Patchogue, NY" )
Ben Vitale
Sewer Repair funds can now be used for Road Repair, in Patchogue Village. This could not have happened at a better time.
A recent study of the road conditions within the area serviced by the Maple Avenue Neighborhood Watch, has yielded valuable information.
Seismic equipment was installed into an automobile, and a not so scientific study has determined that riding over select streets in our area can create ground motion that is equivalent to a 7.2 earthquake. LOL
The above Seismogram is typical of some of the roads in our village, North of the Montauk Highway. It has been established that the most severely effected streets are Oak Street, Cleveland Street, Northridge Street, Wood, Grant, Taber Street, and portions of Maple Avenue. Cleveland St, Wood and Grant, have since been repaved, but Northridge Street, Oak Street, Maple Avenue, and Taber Streets, remain in disrepair!
Although ground motion of this magnitude generally would not create catastrophic damage to a car, the net effect is still substantial, when traveling at any speed, across these roads. "The back bumper of my Pickup Truck, has actually "shaken loose," and fallen onto the highway! LOL
As I have been told, the stray Cats and Dogs have moved on to other parts of the village, because they experience a form of vertigo, similar to that experience by human beings, when walking on our local roads.
Hopefully Patchogue Village will consider re-paving the remaining streets. "Yessssss"
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