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Detention pond, bike path nearly complete By Kelly J. Kaczala News Editor kkaczala@presspublications.com A regional detention pond that will help manage stormwater runoff and improve drainage in the Navarre Avenue and Pickle Road area is expected to be completed next month. The $2.3 million project will help the city fight heavy rains and control flooding in the basements and backyards of area neighborhoods. The detention pond, located across Walmart on Navarre, will be large enough to hold a 10-year rain event. A flood of that magnitude has a 10 percent chance of happening in any year. “The detention pond is big. It will hold quite a bit,” Oregon Public Service Director Paul Roman told The Press last week. “If we get two events in a row, the detention pond may be full from the previous event. But it’s going to be a lot better than what we have now. That field where the detention pond is located, was always flooded with water. So we’re just making it deeper and allowing a bigger volume of water to sit. The water won’t sit there all the time.
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If you can get that to drop out, the nutrients and contaminants won’t rush into the lake quickly. We’re slowing it down.
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A compromise to a bill pending in the state legislature that would expand the patrol authority of township police departments to interstate highways isn’t enough to sway an association that has been opposed to it. Currently, police departments in townships with populations of less than 50,000 residents lack statutory authority to make warrantless stops on interstates. If passed, House Bill 255 would lower the population threshold to 5,000. After being introduced by its sponsor, Representative Steve Hambley, R – Brunswick, in June 2017, the bill received testimony from proponents in September 2017 before the House Transportation and Public Safety Committee. Since then, the committee, chaired by Rep. Doug Green, RMt. Orab, hasn’t held any hearings on the bill. The bill has been opposed by the Buckeye State Sheriff’s Association, which contends many smaller township officers would be leaving their jurisdictions to get to interstates because of limited access points. Also, the BSSA argued the townships would use their interstate patrol authority to bolster their revenues through drug interdiction and asset forfeiture. Lake Township Police Chief Mark Hummer said last week he recently discussed the bill with Representative Theresa Gavarone, R - Bowling Green, and Rep. Hambley and the three came up with what they see as a viable compromise. In a July 27 letter to Robert Cornwell, executive director of the BSSA, chief Hummer wrote the compromise addresses the association’s concerns. “First, we would support an amendment that would stipulate any township police department that wants to enforce the laws on an interstate highway must have at least one direct access point inside the township. Thus, township officers would not be required to leave the township to enter or exit that highway,” the letter says. “The second part of that amendment would
It will completely drain. If the system is backed up, water will sit there for a period of time and it will eventually drain. It does provide a lot of relief from flooding in that area.” Flooding has been a problem in the basements and backyards of the Pickle Road area, including the subdivisions in Flo and Fleitz drives, said Roman. Delayed briefly The city has talked about doing the
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project for years. “I had to postpone the project because of a natural gas line that went through the same area. At the same time, we’ve been installing a waterline that goes from Navarre to Brown. So we’ve been doing multiple projects at the same time. Once we knew where the waterline and the gasline were going, we knew we could build the detention pond and bike path,” said Roman. The city purchased the unbuildable land from Toledo Edison, then gave the easement back to the company for the lines to remain, said Roman. All storm drainage heads northeast and discharges into the lake. The detention pond slows down drainage, allowing some sediment to settle out. “When rainwater backs up into this holding area, sediment drops out,” explained Roman. “The theory is that nutrients attach to the sediment. If you can get that to drop out, the nutrients and contaminants won’t rush into the lake quickly. We’re slowing it down.” Nutrients, such as phosphorus and nitrogen, fuel the development of harm-
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