Retention Pond

Retention Pond

Option 1 and an Option 4

We are in agreement with people’s comments who are voting for the same options 1 and 4. We purchased this house with a retention pond view in the year 2000. (The retention pond has dried out once in that time and for most of the time at least a trickle was making its way over the spillway apron) We first moved to Hallett Cove in 1989 and our 11 year old son used to ride his push bike around here with his friends to go swimming, fishing and yabbying. At that time the pond was about 1 metre deep. No doubt it will have silted from road grime run off, general erosion and the failure of the earth works at the Gretel Crescent site upgrade.

We did read in a report that the retention dam was leaking and the mention of a plastic liner, this would have been a very rare construction technique 40yrs ago and there is no sighting or evidence of a plastic liner in our time here even when it dried up. My husband (who has 40yrs experience in the earth moving/construction business) is of the opinion it would have been clay capped.

We concur with likeminded people and say leave the retention pond in place and fix the bleed off of the spring water into the aquifer.

On another note where is our elected council member/members for this ward?

Why have they not been involved as the communities’ elected representatives?

Patty & Jeff