Swimming In Potholes!

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A pothole riddled road is a headache for parents and a swimming hole for kids!
Published: Tue, April 08, 2008 - 5:53 pm
Last Updated: Tue, April 08, 2008 - 6:22 pm
Tiffany Craig
Tiffany Craig
Standing rainwater is what's causing headaches for people in one Grand Bay subdivision.

Check out the picture attached to this story. The mud holes might be annoying parents but this 2nd grader decided to play in it instead.

A few hundred people live in the Grand Farms subdivision and use the road daily. The muddy mess is making it too hard to drive.

Neighbors have put up cinder blocks so drivers don't use their yards to get around the standing water.

By law, the county can't work on private roads and the people here are fed up.

Michael Mosley took his shoes off and walked right into a water hole to prove how frustrated he was. "It feels like I'm going in for a baptizing but I know it can't be because I'm in the middle of the street, the road we have to travel in everyday."

State representative Spencer Collier has introduced a bill that could help. It would give the county the legal right to work on private roads.

Commissioner Mike Dean represents the Grand Bay Area and has promised to help.

His spokesperson sent the following information about the issue.

1. This is a private road (basically the same as a driveway). By law, the county CANNOT do ANY work or spend any public funds on this road.

2. Commissioner Mike Dean did promise to help these people and he has. He has done a lot behind the scenes. He considered getting donated labor and supplies and looked at the possibly of using volunteer fire fighters to get the job finished, but ran into legal barricades.

3. Mike Dean is keeping his promise to help residents by working with Rep. Spencer Collier to pass a bill in the legislature that will allow the County to work on private roads and find money to pay for this work.

4. Mike Dean does not support using current taxpayer money to work on private roads because this could potentially triple the road maintenance expense for the County. There must be a revenue source attached to any new law concerning County maintenance of private roads.

“I sympathize with these residents and have worked for years to find a legal solution. If the legislature changes the law and supplies a revenue source, the County can help in this situation.” – Mike Dean, County Commissioner

one word COUNTY?  lol

Posted by cmb1 on 04/09/08 - 2:09 pm • Report Abuse.   

Yes there is something wrong with this!!!! When the county screwed up and should of put the road in there back in 84.  We have been trying to get the county to see that this road was here in 84 but nobody listened.  Ya the public pays for everything else why not this road. It aint our fault the county messed up it is the county’s and they need to step up and do something. Why dont ya’ll drive down here and drive down this road. Then you ill know what we are talking about. Untill ya do dont be bashing what we are trying to get fixed that the county messed up.

Posted by kjjmbf on 04/09/08 - 12:10 pm • Report Abuse.   

did the county fail in not requiring a proper road, did the builders have to answer to the county, were inspections done, can you just call it a subdivision, sell lots, without any county permits, so many questions and no answers, so just get the public to pay for it, is there something wrong with this?

Posted by earthlink4@earthlink.net on 04/08/08 - 8:13 pm • Report Abuse.   

He doesnt support helping fix roads but he supports giveing some one 300000 dollars for a playing field. He has not done nything to help us. Why is he still lieing? But he doen’t support this bill at all. take some of that money he is giving out for the playing field and fix the roads. Put it up until he can gt on here and do it. It aint no driveway on the sign at the end of the road it says ROAD not DrIVEWAY. He hasnt worked with any of us to do anything.  It is just so we can help if we need it.

Posted by kjjmbf on 04/08/08 - 6:38 pm • Report Abuse.   


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