Water comes under East 16 from north, formerly flowed into pond shown in Google aerial view below but will be be piped E, S and West as it flows now

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The council's decision on the tree compromise at Stonebridge Square was the only one they could make. I was personally disappointed that, as the final item on an agenda than took three hours to cover, there was no time to allow the council to look at the developer's plan for the stormwater drainage through, around and off the site to the southeast and on to the West Fork of the White River.

The plan appears workable, but the problem is that when work stopped to work out a solution on the destruction of the timber and premature grading of the land, the stormwater was left uncontrolled. Sure there was a silt fence and some hay bales near Dead Horse Mountain Road at the southeast corner of the project. But, with no work going on, no one was on site to maintain these elements.

It is to be hoped that the stormwater system will be completed as quickly as possible. That is always the first matter that needs to be done on a development site. The greatest damage to downstream water usually occurs DURING the development process.