A Pittsburgh-area test case in working across political boundaries to address flooding - Environmental Health News
A Pittsburgh-area test case in working across political boundaries to address flooding - Environmental Health NewsA Pittsburgh-area test case in working across political boundaries to address flooding - Environmental Health NewsPosted: 23 Jan 2020 03:36 AM PSTAnthony Wolkiewicz had his picture taken with Fred Rogers while working at WQED in 1977.Rogers made a special point to ask about Wolkiewicz's youngest son. "Who is this? I don't remember him in my neighborhood," Wolkiewicz remembers him saying in the same voice he used on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.It's sheer luck that Wolkiewicz still has that photo: he lost many of his cherished photographs when his basement flooded in June 2017. More than 2 inches of rain fell in an hour, he said, and Saw Mill Run Creek behind his house "became a raging rapids.""It crested over its banks, and I got 4 feet of water in my basement," Wolkiewicz, 65, recalled.He watched as a television was carried alo…
