GUILDERLAND — The stretch of Western Avenue running in front of Stuyvesant Plaza has for years been plagued by chronic flooding, on occasion leaving plaza customers and employees stranded for hours, according to Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber.
Barber wrote in a recent memo to the town’s Industrial Development Agency, “The cause of this flooding is the tremendous amounts of stormwaters from a wide area (about 860 acres) that flow into the Town-owned McKownville Reservoir between Route 20 and Stuyvesant Plaza.”
The reservoir’s limited capacity, according to Barber, “is insufficient to hold the stormwater from the increasing frequency and force of storms.”…