The News of August 2010 - ISSUE #25
...an official publication of the Community Association
More Membership Directory Corrections
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Hillsborough County Fixes CMPOA Ponds
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August Date to Put on Your Calendar
CA Board Meeting
11th
9 a.m.
Rollins Theater NOTICE! Lock up your valuables! If you are going to bring items of value (even brand name clothes, hats, glasses) to the locker rooms, make sure you place a lock on the locker and lock them up. The CA has learned of several incidents of items missing, and every time they were left in unlocked lockers or left in dressing rooms unattended.
On the Inside CA President’s Report.. 2 CA Schedule................. 2 CARE......................... 15 Club Happenings..... 9-10 Consumer Affairs........ 14 Crossword.................... 7 CryptoQuote............... 14 Entertainment Corner... 3 Golf............................. 16 HART Flex.................... 8 Military Affairs............. 13 Movies........................ 19 Newcomers................ 19 Sudoku....................... 15 We Want to Know......... 2
The “Green Manor Pond” with newly sodded banks. By Karen Jones It began in late May of 2009 when Sun City Center was inundated with several heavy rainstorms. They caused flooding all over the area. Readers might remember the Memorial Day storm when the CA party was forced into the Florida Room and once the sun came out, the bandstand area was full of standing water that took nearly two days to dry up. Extensive flooding also occurred on the roads and even up the driveways and lawns of residents on Club Manor Drive. When the county received a complaint about the high water levels that occur during storms, they determined that the ponds were maintained at too high a level and therefore were unable to handle heavy storms. The homeowners’ association, known as Club Manor Property Owners Association (CMPOA), received word from the county that the water level of two ponds (a small one to the north/east of Green Manor and a larger one known as the Club Manor pond east
of Pebble Beach Blvd. S.) would have to be lowered. After 31 years in existence, the CMPOA was faced with the county lowering the retaining ponds’ weirs to enable adequate flow of rainwater. They planned to do a six-month study of the effect of the lowering of the ponds in the prevention of neighborhood flooding. During the summer, the crew came out and cut back
January 2010 shows what the residents around the pond were viewing from their many sunrooms situated around the ponds. Under the direction of CMPOA board member and treasurer Bob Garrod, a meeting was held with the county administrators involved in making decisions about the pond. Former CMPOA president Harold Kyne suggested that
the edges. They took the recommendation to their superiors, and the county commissioners approved the project, estimated to cost about $10,000. While it was expected to be started in late February, the cold winter delayed the project until May. The county began by filling in with dirt, then laying cocoa matting, and finally securing sod around the perimeter of both ponds. Once laid, it was the responsibility of each homeowner to make sure the sod was watered each day for at least a week to allow it to “take.” The larger picture shows the new look of the Green Manor pond in July. The CMPOA appreciates the The Green Manor Pond after the weir was lowered. The visible pipes willingness of catch rainwater draining from the roofs. Photo by Judy Stimson. the county and the commissioners to the weirs on both ponds, the county, if they were make these improvements. lowering them one foot. unwilling to return the ponds As for solving the The above picture of the to their original depths, could flooding problem, the jury Green Manor pond taken in do something to beautify is still out.