Update on Detention Pond Project

Stephanie Lott with the City's Watershed Protection and Development Review Department and Jay Scanlon, an engineer with Freese and Nichols, met with approximately a dozen Allandale residents Monday night at the Northwest Recreation Center to go over the planned upgrade to the Far West/Great Northern detention pond. This is basically a flood control project to upgrade the pond to withstand a flooding event many times what occurred in the 1981 flood. The $2.5 million project will get underway this fall and take approximately 9 months to complete. Resident's concerns ranged from graffiti on the planned spillway to work hours during the project to fate of the cypress trees.  (continue reading Update on...)

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[Beautification]

Images of the project are now available at:

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