Streams, Springs, and Stormwater

On the west side of Nicholasville Road within the Plan area, the only stream is located at the corner of Nicholasville Road and the county line. The stream originates in Jessamine County, flows into Fayette County, then under Nicholasville Road, and continues west. There are two springs inventoried from GIS layers. One daylights on the UK Horticulture Research Farm near Nicholasville Road between Man o’ War Boulevard and Waveland Museum Lane and the other is located on the Waveland State Historic Site.

On the east side of Nicholasville Road, the stream that flows under Nicholasville Road from the west side continues near the county line and through the Southpoint neighborhood. FEMA floodplain is indicated along this stream on this side of the Plan area. Another small stream flow begins near the boundary of the Plan area along the Redmond’s Garden Center property and flows west. This stream, a designated FEMA floodplain, has a greenway bike/ped trail planned that continues along the existing private farm road. A number of stormwater basins have been constructed as part of developments on this side of the Plan area at the King’s Garden Center, the Porter Memorial Baptist Church, the Southern Acres Christian Church, and the Cobblestone Subdivision. A pond exists on the property at the corner of Cobblestone Road and Old Nicholasville Road and appears to be manmade. Contour lines indicate that storm water may flow through the livestock tunnel under Nicholasville Road to this pond. There is one spring which daylights in the right-of-way of Nicholasville Road next to the Cobblestone neighborhood.

With a watershed boundary dissecting the west side of the Plan area parallel to the railroad tracks, the storm water runoff generally flows to the east towards the surrounding residential neighborhoods of Blueberry Hills, Pickway Korner, and Southpoint. A stream of water was observed flowing from west to east across the garden center/farm property at the intersection of Man o’ War Boulevard and Nicholasville Road. This stream has a natural vegetative buffer of trees and ground cover and flows over ground until it drains into an underground storm sewer behind the homes along Walhampton Drive abutting this property. Public input received throughout the Plan process included concerns and reports of flooding of the homes and lots on both Walhampton Drive and Tangley Way. Before any development is approved, a storm water study should be conducted for 4100 Nicholasville Road and all the surrounding properties, including across the rights-of-way for Nicholasville Road and Man o’ War Boulevard, to identify and address stormwater issues that would adversely affect existing residential properties.