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SERVING THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1877
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n The town has identified eight flood-control projects as priorities (all shown with photos on the
map except No. 6), part of a list of 33 projects the town is
considering. A sampling of other potential projects around
town is also included on the map. For the complete list,
including watershed locations, nature of problems, proposed
improvements and estimated costs, turn to Page A6.
Town eyes $100M in flood-control projects
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Rocky Point
Road storm drain
replacement.
Cost: $9.3 million
Pemberwick
Park storm drain
replacement.
Cost: $1.4 million
Fairfield Road
bridge replacement.
Cost: $970,000
North Street storm
drain replacement.
Cost: $3.96 million
Ridgeview Avenue
culvert replacement.
Cost: $1.18 million
8: Mianus Park Pond dam
improvements.
Cost: $880,000
2: Cos Cob Avenue storm drain replacement. Cost: $4,843,750
4: Sound Beach/Arcadia storm drain
replacement. Cost: $7.1 million
3: Stone Arch bridges removal.
Cost: $40,000
1: Cider Mill additional railroad culverts.
Cost: $6,719,000
5: East Putnam bridge and railroad replacement.
Cost: $2.37 million
7: Church Street storm drain replacement.
Cost: $3.45 million
By Frank MacEachern
Staff Writer
Dale Svorka knows first hand what
flooding can do.
Two years ago during a nor’easter
that swept through the area, her 494
Den Lane home in Pemberwick, which
sits right beside the Byram River, felt
the full force of nature.
“We never had water like that be-
fore,” she said. “A couple of times we
have gotten 1 to 2 feet. But this was di-
sastrous. There was about 5 feet of
water in the basement.”
Flooding brings bad memories, new fears
Photos by Helen Neafsey/Staff photographer.
and david ames/for greenwich time
TIMOTHY GUZDA/STAFF GRAPHIC AND PAGE DESIGN
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Pemberwick Road
erosion protection.
Cost: $425,000
Due to flooding of the Byram River, Dale
Svorka’s home has had flooding damage.
David Ames/for greenwich time
Outrage
over
sperm
swapBy Debra Friedman and Brian Lockhart
STAFF WRITERS
State lawmakers are expressing concern
and outrage over the Department of Public
Health’s handling of a case involving a Green-
wich doctor who used the wrong sperm in a
fertility treatment — and was accused of
using his own.
Some couldn’t
fathom why the doc-
tor at the center of
the scandal was
never compelled to
take a DNA test by
the suddenly embat-
tled agency.
“Their failure is
inexplicable,” said Sen. Andrew McDonald,
D-Stamford, co-chairman of the Legislature’s
Judiciary Committee. “The failure to order
that test appears to be part of a professional
whitewash.”
McDonald said there is no question the De-
partment of Public Health had the legal au-
thority under state statute to pursue a DNA
Theis ready
for new roleBy Neil Vigdor
Staff Writer
With two hours until the closing bell, the
market is down 52 points.
David Theis is bullish about the next
two years nevertheless, rearing to assume
the balancing act of his day job as a local
investment adviser and the responsibili-
ties of holding office as Greenwich’s next
Republican selectman.
“I’m really flattered and honored that I’ll
be able to serve my hometown in this capaci-
ty,” Theis, 60, a third-generation resident,
said Thursday afternoon during an inter-
view at his East Putnam Avenue office in Old
Greenwich.
With the CNBC stock ticker flashing on a
TV in the background, Theis sifted market re-
search reports and phone messages from his
vast network of friends, who said the gregari-
ous man-about-town will be the perfect com-
plement to fellow Republican Peter Tesei on
the Board of Selectmen.
“He’s got terrific people skills,” outgoing
Selectman Peter Crumbine said. “He’s just
the kind of person that everybody likes. When
I used to go out campaigning with him, all
you’d have to do is stand next to him and peo-
ple would come up to him.”
Selectman-Elect David Theis at his office in Old
Greenwich.
David Ames/for greenwich time
See THEIS on A5
See RESIDENTS on A6
By Frank MacEachern
Staff Writer
The 2007 nor’easter did more than
flood homes in Greenwich, it also served
as a watery wake-up call to residents
and town officials to the dangers posed
by flooding, said the chairman of the
town’s Flood and Erosion Control
Board.
“I hate to say we owe great thanks to
a storm, but it did bring the issue to the
forefront,” Anthony M. Macleod said.
“When it’s nice and dry, it’s not hard to
dismiss the need for improved drain-
age.”
But the wake-up call could come with
a $100 million-plus price tag if all 33 proj-
ects identified in a consultant’s report are
carried out. Macleod and others caution,
See TOWN on A6
Coming Monday:
Connecticut’s medical
discipline rated close to
worst in the nation.
See OUTRAGE on A8