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WR attempting to clear up pond problem
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
The Warner Robins City
Council voted during its reg
ular meeting to pay Stantec
Consulting Services out of
Macon $3,740.37 - as part of
its regular purchasing bids.
The money is to be used for
“technical review services”
for Peach Blossom Terrace.
That is clear. What follows
couldn’t be muddier - figura
tively and literally.
The review is to help the
city determine what it can
do, if anything, in regard to
a pond, although “pond” is
apparently a loose descrip
tion and at the heart of the
problem.
“Something that started
approximately two years ago
or a little over two years ago,”
said Scott Ward, an Air Force
senior master sergeant, but
there at the councils work
session (along withUseveral
others) as a resident of the
development. “On the area
on the inside, was a reten
tion pond. Over a period of a
couple of months, it was dug
out further.
“The conditions now ...
It’s a mess now. Two years
after, it’s eroded. Storm tiles
have come loose and they’re
floating around like bobbers.
The developer went in and
put a well in, so it’s never
going to dry up. The well has
since been disconnected by
the city.
“The big thing that con
cerns me,” he said, “is it’s
four foot of standing water.
I have a house there at that
property. I can’t sit on my
front porch without getting
eaten up by mosquitoes. Wild
animals come there. Children
in the entire development
and the neighboring develop
ment come and swim in it.
This is stormwater runoff.
It was never intended to be
a pond.”
Or at least that’s not the
way it was advertised to him.
He said his covenant has no
mention of a “pond”. Two
more in attendance, how
ever, said theirs did, and in
fact they added that was one
of the reasons they moved
there to start with. One resi
dent said his covenant not
only mentions that but it
also talks about fishing rules
and even boats and docks.
Yet another said she liked
the pond “concept” and just
wants it to be fixed properly
as promised. She said four
other residents felt the same
way. Ward and another resi
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the pond fixed properly or
the land just to be put back
the way it should be.
Complicating matters is
erosion and soil removal, the
latter, they said done by the
owner (see Ward’s reference
to him digging it out fur
ther). Because of the two,
Walker, having looked at the
photos the residents provid
ed, said they looked to have
lost 50-60 feet of their yards.
Plus there is a road report
edly blazed by the developer
that ends - without warn
ing - in a 30-foot drop, said
Councilman Clifford Holmes
Jr., who among several has
toured the area.
Public Works Director
Joe Musselwhite has been
involved in events surround-
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ing the area most. He told the
residents the reason the well
was removed was because it
was being used for a purpose
other than what the council
approved it for. “We’re in the
business of selling water,” he
said. “If we had known that
(what he was going to do),
I would have sold him some
pipe and a meter.”
Musselwhite further said
that he had gathered all facts
about the development as it
pertained to the city - codes,
ordinances, et cetera - and
with the help of the city’s
legal counsel a letter had
been drafted and sent to him:
“demanding things be done,”
Musselwhite said.
They have not, he said.
Walker said they were hold
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a result. And he also said
earlier in the discussion that
the pond, based on what the
bottom consisted of, would
never hold water, anyway.
What will happen from
here is obvious: It’s unclear.
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Friday by Stephen D.
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Executive Officer of Little
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