sghoghunter
Senior Member
First off I live in the edge of a small town and on the east side of my parents house is a drainage ditch for the water off of atleast 1/4 of towns overflow rain water. Also over forty years ago the landowner to the north dammed up a wet bottom and made a pond. I remember when I was a kid that there was constant problems with water backing up due to beavers. That pond dam also busted and went dry except for a small creek through the middle until two yrs ago when the old mans grandson and the farmer that farms his land rebuilt the dam and now it’s a pond again. The problem with the pond is the dam and the two overflow pipes are almost even and the water stays a couple inches below the dam. The problem with the town’s drainage ditch is on the north side the ditch has filled in with dirt and it now backs up in about two ac’s of my woods. Also this morning I done some walking and found out the 2 ac’s was backed up due to two big beaver dam’s. I’ve been digging them out for the past couple hours and only let it down maybe a foot. The ditch has also been getting wider and wider every year and the city people keep coming up with excuses about getting some kind of grant to put pipe in instead of a ditch. Last year I took pictures of the flooding and gave them to the city clerk and as far as I know nothing has been done. What would y’all’s next move be? Also would a call to the EPA put a fire under someone’s feet or cause more problems?
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