Jeff Bergosh Blog: Retention Pond Questions

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Thursday, September 13, 2018

Retention Pond Questions

This map shows the storm water ponds in and around Mobile Higway and Beulah Road in District 1. Green ones are county-maintained, red ones are private.

Over the last several days, due to the numerous rain events we had over the last several weeks, I have been asked about the status of the maintenance of various retention ponds in and around Mobile Highway and Beulah road.

Staff have answered the question about the rotation: Once every 13 weeks or so, the county sends crews out to service these ponds as necessary--to include cutting the grass. Weather can make this schedule fluctuate.

Myescambia.com contains a very user-friendly, interactive GIS map of the county, with layers that can be added or taken out to provide the user with a variety of good information. For example, the screenshot above is from this GIS database and is based upon the following search:

From the home page, Click on Maps, then Commission Districts, zoom in to the desired location, Go to map layers, check environmental, check County ponds - as you zoom to an area County ponds will be green, private ponds will show red.

If you are curious about whether or not a pond is county maintained, this feature will let you know very quickly. Or, you can call our office at 850-595-4910 and we will look into this for you.

I have asked staff to identify the last service dates for the 10 ponds circled on the illustration above, as I was asked on my facebook page about these specifically by multiple citizens. I'll post the answer(s) when I receive them--here and on facebook.