Tired of waiting for Frog Pond fix
December 1, 2023 Edition
I would have to disagree with the mayor’s statement in The Shoreline’s November 17th edition. “Bent said that while he wishes he had a solution yesterday, the work will take as long as it takes.”
The very first meeting we had up by the pond with members from the Town and the engineers, Mayor Darrin Bent and Ward 1 councillor Shelly Moores were not there. Maybe if Mayor Bent and our town councillor had been there, they would have heard this firsthand.
My suggestion then was that before the first layer of pavement goes on, dig the road up a little above where the pond starts and reroute the existing stream towards the pond (that’s where it was going anyway). A very easy cost effective and simple solution. Have a French drain or a piece of pipe directed towards the pond. The water will make its way to the pond as it did in the past 80 plus years. Last summer, the construction company had a huge pump there for over a week pumping the water out of the ditch so they could do their work.
Facing the pond, the left-hand side never froze up in the past, so that tells me the water is always running in, and on the right-hand side same issue, it never froze because the water was always running out. When I was a kid playing on the pond, in both places you always lost a puck or two there. We all kept away from those areas because it wasn’t safe on those sides.
This is gone on way too long in my opinion. What are they waiting for? For the residents to go down with pick and shovels and do it ourselves? If this was turned around the other way and a resident did what has been done to this pond, this would have been dealt with long ago.
They have an engineering company, Stantec I think, doing a review on this, which I think is a waste of our taxpayers’ money.
Sincerely,
Peter Dunn
Topsail, CBS
I’m a little confused over the frog pond issue and why we as a community need to pay our dollars for the Stantec report. Where are the town engineers that are paid nice salaries and I’m sure a big fat pension. I have never seen comments by the town engineering dept on what may has caused the issue on the pond. We need to hire an outside company to go and see what the issue was that caused this problem. Crazy don’t you think CBS. What exactly does the CBS Engineering do is my question! They can’t figure out why this happened to Frog Pond. Really! We are in trouble folks.