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Contributed commentary from John Bench:
The rains of recent weeks have had a devastating impact on many residents. I see that one of the possible solutions is to pump storm runoff into a tributary of Spring Creek. What will this do to the houses on or near Spring Creek? During the last two rain events, the creek at the bottom of the hill on Needmore Road was so far out of its bank that it was backing up to the fence lines of some of the new houses that have recently been built and are being built in that area.
We are experiencing more of these generational rains, and the old ideas of how to handle them are outdated. I see one development that has the potential of causing similar issues when completed, and that is the new Kroger on Tiny Town Road. The runoff from that project will go down into the back yards of residents on Berkshire Drive, which is already getting runoff from the Solis Apartments.
Many of the subdivisions being built try to control runoff with catch basins, which can fill quickly and developers build houses on these catch basins. Then they sell them to unsuspecting buyers and walk away. The subdivision across from the racetrack (Clarksville Speedway) is a prime example of this; there are a large number of homes with the catch basin/sink hole as their back yard.
John Bench
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