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Residents press city to fix Sherman Crossing detention-pond issues and consider bioswales or public–private green-space funding

Denton City Council · April 7, 2026
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Summary

Multiple residents and local university experts urged the council to work with neighborhoods and consider lower-cost blue-green infrastructure (bioswales) instead of expensive retention ponds, and asked the city to consider partnering on land acquisition and grants for neighborhood green space at Hercules Basin.

Residents from the Sherman Crossing area and nearby neighborhoods addressed the council during public comment, describing longstanding problems with a detention pond that they said is now an eyesore, produces odors and mosquitoes, and has had fish kills after herbicide treatments…

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