The Brookfield Boards of Selectmen and Finance are recommending that the town appropriate $2 million to fund a drainage and flooding mitigation plan in the Meadowbrook Manor neighborhood.  The proposed project was reviewed by the Board of Finance last week as part of a capital items to be funding in the coming fiscal year. 

The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has approved a request to divert the brook in order to alleviate flooding conditions in the 128 home neighborhood. 

There were back-to-back 100-year level floods in 2011, which prompted homeowner Jean Hartnett to push for a solution to the problem that's existed for decades.  In the meantime, Public Works crews have cleaned catch basins to reduce some of the flooding.  Neighbors have waded out in water up to their knees, many have had flooded basements in the last several years.

A number of other capital items were approved by the Board of Finance for the budget referendum. 

They including roof replacement at the town library and at town hall, road paving and money for the volunteer fire companies.  Also among the items is acquisition of a dump truck, fuel storage tank replacement at the Highway Garage and miscellaneous repairs to Brookfield High School and Whisconier Middle School.