Developers or Others Please Share Your Knowledge -Detention Pond

[Account Closed]

Hi All,

I hope someone can share some light on this huge issue that I am dealing with and some of the neighbours too. I live in a popular location  (Edmond, OK) that has exploded in the last two years with housing development. My house is on a busy two way street with many private homes, and recently, developers have purchased acres and started building neighbourhoods. There is a new neighbourhood east of me not even a mile away and another one in the backside. Since these neighbourhoods came up some of their drainage system point towards others and my direction. Therefore increasing the water runoff into the small creek in the backyard and also widen it by a couple of feet in the last year due to the volume, and no longer containing the water in the creek during a storm. I've had close calls where its come close to our front door, and others have also experienced this. 

The developing east of me continues to build houses and still no retaining pond. The street has been shut down before too, and we've also had a lot of damages; gate doesn't close, bridge flip over, concrete cracking, and a new water stream exposing cable lines. The city is NOT doing anything. 

Should developers have retention ponds???

Backyard Front Yard: notice gate 1st pic and 2nd pic how high water rises

[Greg Dickerson]

@Account Closed looks like you have a serious issue. You need to address this with the city. There should be stormwater requirements for development they had to adhere to. If the city is not helpful you can contact the state  and federal DWQ