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The town will take responsibility to fix
the erosion and flooding problems some
Wait Avenue residents have experienced
after the state Department of
Transportation finished using but never
seeded or stabilized a borrow pit on the
Ammons reservoir tract.
Deputy Town Manager Roe
O’Donnell said Director of Engineering
Eric Keravuori has been meeting with Rob
Weintraub from the Ammons Development
Group to produce a stormwater management
plan that will “take care of the erosion
and the accelerated runoff” caused by
the unstabilized site.
DOT had control of the
borrow pit the contractor for the first
phase of the bypass used for fill. Even
though there was a plan to reseed and
stabilize the area, O’Donnell said, it
was never done.
As a result Deborah Proctor,
Pam Grubbs and other homeowners found
silt washing into their backyards, even
flooding during and after heavy rains.
“Forty acres has been
denuded and left that way for at least
four years,” Proctor said during last
week’s hearing to rezone some of the
Ammons property. “You cannot let that
much land go that long without reseeding
it.
“Folks, you just need to do
something.”
O’Donnell said Weintraub
would have a preliminary plan Wednesday
(June 13) before he meets with Proctor,
Grubbs and others affected. The plan
will be for onsite detention of the
water.
O’Donnell said he had been
working with the neighbors since about
Christmas, but “I couldn’t see the
source of the problem until the middle
of March” when there were some heavy
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