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Property owner tells Wilson County Road Commission stormwater is backing onto his land; commission to revisit next month
Summary
A Wilson County property owner told the Road Commission that blocked or missing culverts on Glade Road/Central Pike are causing chronic flooding that harms a decades-old store and hay production. Commissioners discussed rights-of-way, possible work, and agreed to revisit the issue next month; no formal repair was authorized.
An unnamed Wilson County property owner told the Wilson County Road Commission at its May 1 meeting that stormwater has been backing onto his land for years after a culvert near Glade Road and Central Pike was closed or buried, damaging a 95-year-old store and reducing hay production.
The complaint came during the commission's public-comment period, when the property owner said he filed two work orders; after a contractor he hired located the culvert with ground-penetrating radar, he said the county declined to open it. "I went out on my own dime, hired a firm out of Nashville. They came out with ground print, penetrating radar, located the culvert," he said.
The commission discussed whether the affected pipe lies within the county right of way and what the county may lawfully do there. Commissioners noted the county retains authority over work in its right of…
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