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Chris DiPietro shared this photo taken from the Foodmaster parking lot of flooding across from Lucey's Service Station. Chris DiPietro
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Chris DiPietro shared this photo taken from the Foodmaster parking lot of flooding across from Lucey's Service Station.
Bruce Lomas shared this photo of hail that fell in Melrose on Wednesday.
Steve shares this photo of a lightning bolt taken from the Foodmaster parking lot.
Flooding on Washington Street near the former RMV branch.
A large portion of a tree down across Main Street at Lebanon Street.

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UPDATE: DPW Director John Scenna reached out to Melrose Patch to explain the pooling water seen on Morelli Field in one of the photos above.

"The field actually performed as designed—the field is designed to flood in left field," Scenna said.

In times of flash floods and high intensity storms, Scenna said, designing the field to have water pool on the left side of Morelli intends to protect the artificial turf of Fred Green Field, as well as the rest of Morelli Field such as the infield.

"What we’re happy to see is it receded quickly, within 40 minutes of the storm," Scenna said, adding that people were using Fred Green Field later that evening. "Obviously the natural field (of Morelli) was wet, but there wasn’t any ponding. As you know, in years past, water would just pond forever."

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daniel thing

5:37 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Good thing they improved the drainage on that million dollar field ...ridiculous!

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Daniel DeMaina

10:09 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012

DPW Director John Scenna contacted me tonight about the field photo, and I've added his explanation to the article above.

Ann McCarthy

10:19 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Dan, your front page has a picture of an otter. You might want to make that the mascot picture for this acticle

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Daniel DeMaina

10:49 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Haha ... if the otters ever escape Stone Zoo, we know where they're going.

Chuck Loycano

8:34 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012

Dan - I drove by the field about an hour after the photo was posted and there were no puddles to be found, the entire area drained perfectly. The fields, surrounding green areas and walks all drained quickly.

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Daniel DeMaina

9:44 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012

Thanks for that update and account, Chuck.

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