A puddle the size of a pond that forms after a heavy rain on East Chop Drive, near Mill Square Road, will be fixed finally, after two years of complaints from neighbors and others who use the road.
“We got some state money to fix the puddle,” said Oak Bluffs town administrator Michael Dutton, who has fielded many of the complaints. “We had the design all set, so now they’re installing the bio-filtration system and the pipes that are required.”
The design calls for constructing a gravel-based wetland to hold the water out of the road.
“The water will filter through the plants and gravel before being discharged through a pipe into the Oak Bluffs Harbor,” said conservation agent Elizabeth Durkee.
Funding for the project came from Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management.
Several earlier attempts to solve the problem ran into roadblocks over land ownership and wetlands regulations.