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Gallatin council debates three stormwater fixes for American Legion veterans home; sends item back for more analysis
Summary
City staff presented three constrained options to fix chronic flooding at the American Legion veterans residence — extend Hill/Hale Avenue (removing Woods Ferry Road), build a ~100‑foot detention pond on Liberty Baptist Church land, or return $500,000 in ARPA funds — and council agreed to revisit the item at a Dec. 9 work session after asking for more numbers and design detail.
City staff told the Gallatin City Council that only three practicable options remain to address repeated flooding at the American Legion veterans residence and nearby neighborhoods, and urged the council to give staff direction or return federal ARPA funds.
"The only cost‑effective plausible alternative that can be constructed within the time constraints to utilize the ARPA funds…is a new detention pond on the south edge of the Liberty Baptist Church property," Mr. Tuttle, the city presenter, said during the special‑called committee meeting. He added that the church had indicated willingness only for a much narrower footprint (roughly 35–50 feet) and that achieving the needed detention without taking private land would be difficult.
The three options Tuttle outlined were: proceed with the previously designed Hill/Hale Avenue extension (which would remove Woods Ferry Road and expand the Bell/Bales detention pond), construct a roughly…
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