Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Still Quiet on the Quincy Front.

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Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Still Quiet on the Quincy Front.

For the most part, things continue to remain relatively quiet in the Q for a second week in a row.

About all that Quincy suffered in the way of significant problems this past week were two flooding events during Tuesday’s torrential, if not arguably biblical, rainfall.

Needless to say, we all know that such quietude won’t last.

In deep – too deep …
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One was that Newport Avenue was flooded and so closed to traffic just before the evening commute commenced.

Quincy Quarry is following up on this story to see if this flooding was strictly a matter of a heavy rain piling on water on top of a high tide in one of regular flooding spots in the Q or if the demolition work at the now closed Wollaston Red Line station may have degraded the underground drainage infrastructure that passes under the T’s tracks, its station and its parking lot.

An exploding fire event
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And the other contemporaneous flooding event resulted in an electrical fire alongside of Hancock Street near its intersection with Hannon Parkway.

This long-burning fire event fire was caused by the flooding of underground electrical distribution equipment and so giving rise to a dramatic and explosive short-circuiting of a major piece of electric power distribution equipment.

The nature of this fire was such that Quincy had to make a mutual aid call to the Boston Fire Department to see the fire finally extinguished.

For once, however, this explosive, inflaming and electrifying event was not the often as well as usually well-deserved fault of National Grid.

“A City On The Move” goes up in flames?
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Rather, courtesy of Quarry sources both high but most low, this near disaster was all but assuredly the result of poor drainage within a city-commissioned and so built underground utilities vault that was necessary given the Town Brook relocation project and intertwined construction of Hannon Parkway.

Whether – if not most likely so – more such poorly developed infrastructure in Quincy Center has been built and/or is pending to be built remains to be seen as well as probably all too expensively soon enough.

When things do hit the fan and as they all but invariably do in the Q, expect Quincy Quarry to cover such events as only it has the stones to do.

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