Hello, and thank you for your e-mail. This is exactly what I have been talking about to the Town Boards over the past several years, and exactly the result I predicted.
The hill behind us has not only been de-nuded of trees (I even took aerial photos and showed them to the town), but the grade has been dramatically increased by extreme filling with rocks, tree stumps, concrete waste and other such non-absorbant materials. Results are that all the water landing on a large open area above my home courses across my property. The only course of action suggested is a lawsuit that I cannot underwrite at this time. Gerald Harting 46 Carter Drive (508) 877-5930 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from rly-xh05.mail.aol.com (rly-xh05.mail.aol.com [172.20.115.234]) by air-xh03.mail.aol.com (v92.17) with ESMTP id MAILINXH33-9b23e7b8f0c47; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:15:41 -0500 Received: from TheWorld.com (pcls2.std.com [199.172.62.104]) by rly-xh05.mail.aol.com (v92.16) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXH58-4ae3e7b8eece0; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:15:08 -0500 Received: from shell.TheWorld.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [199.172.62.241]) by TheWorld.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2LMF61u007539 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:15:06 -0500 Received: from localhost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by shell.TheWorld.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA5991745 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:15:06 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: shell01.TheWorld.com: rmandel owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:15:06 -0500 From: Rene s Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Further to my e-mail 20Mar03 re: Water runoff from DoeII In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) It sounds to me as though you have had something done to you that a neighbor of mine did through his own stupidity. He cut down trees on the hill above his house. Next spring: instant backyard lake. Trees absorb water - lots of it. If the Doeskin II developer has been cutting down trees uphill of your house, there's nothing left to absorb the excess water: it runs straight downhill into your yard. Rene Mandel
