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Drainage board sets hearing after DeSoto‑area pond berm blocks neighbor's runoff
Summary
A DeSoto‑area landowner petitioned the Delaware County Drainage Board after a neighbor dug a pond and built an embankment that residents say blocked natural overland flow. The board voted to hold a public hearing, with surveyor's office to send registered notices to involved parties.
Wayne Johns, who lives at 8309 East County Road 350 North, told the Delaware County Drainage Board that a neighbor’s recently dug pond and an accompanying mound of excavated material has blocked the natural overland flow from his yard and left a swath of his property persistently wet.
"They made an embankment . . . which basically eliminated the natural runoff from our property," Johns…
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