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City elects to remove Kimberly fence line

Project will alleviate issues with rainwater

November 14, 2007|Mike Moore

The Nicholasville City Commission approved a bid from the Nicholasville-based Herb Geddes Fence Co. to remove fence from behind houses in a section of the Kimberly Heights subdivision.

"There's a big drainage area that runs behind Shreveport and Garden Park drives behind that subdivision," said Gary Goldey, superintendent of the city's street and road department. "In some areas, it's about 40 feet wide and in other areas it's about 70 feet wide."

The crux of the problem occurs during rainy weather.

"This is something that's been ongoing," Goldey said. "The residences in that area have had problems with that easement back there back even before I was on the commission in the 1990s. It seems like that the water gets to those backyards faster and faster every time it rains."

Over the years, the chain link fences that residents have put up have created mini dams, causing the water to back up into yards.

"At every fence, sediments have built up and kind of served as a small dam at each fence line," Goldey said.

The city plans on removing existing fence and putting up one chain link fence along the border of the drainage area.

"Later on, whenever we get the opportunity, we're going to go in and take all of the little dams out and let the water flow better along there," Goldey said. "Probably 30-plus years ago, it should have been explained to the folks that it would have been better not to put fences in that area because of the drainage issues."

Goldey said in years past, Nicholasville had relaxed rules about residents putting fences on easements.

An easement is the right to do something or the right to prevent something over the real property of another.

In the coming weeks, the city will contact the property owners whose land will be affected by the fence removal.

"This is the first step to take measures to allow the water to flow more freely," Goldey said.

In other news, the commission approved a proposal from L.E. Gregg Associates to perform geotech services for the new city hall.

"They're going to be doing rock sounding and finding out how deep we'll have to go to get on a firm foundation," Goldey said.

Goldey added geotech is an normal procedure to prevent things such as sink holes from occurring when a structure is built.

The city also approved the hiring of three police officer recruits, Wesley Casey Jr., Burke Rhoads and Matthew Fannin, and OK'd the transfer of Tracie Peyton from code enforcement administrative assistant to police clerk typist.

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