Just thinking about soil pull-ution

Let’s call this a work in progress involving male intuition and observation

It’s about a tree dying, not even in my yard

Well, it’s more about WHY the tree died, I have a theory

Since I moved to this property 5 years ago, I noticed that the builder/developer of this wonderful platt that I live in, used the low spot between my neighbor and I to create a retention pool for construction run-off waste. I knew this of course when I built on the property. Actually the retention pool was kind of cool. We had those 3in’ green frogs everywhere. I noticed that near the intersection of the pool and the creek , there were spring woodland wildflowers like trillium and “jack in the pulpit” abound

But of course at some point, the construction stopped and the need for the retention pool ceased to exist. So, it was turned into a culvert that now empties into the creek. that is, now the storm sewer empties into the creek instead of being retained by the retention pool which was there originally to make sure the construction run-off would leach into the soil rather get dumped into the creek

So now it has leached into the soil. I guess I am lucky that I do not own that 10ft wide drainage easement where I used to enjoy all those woodland wildflowers

jrd

Let’s call this a work in progress involving male intuition and observation

It’s about a tree dying, not even in my yard Well, it’s more about WHY the tree died, I have a theory

Since I moved to this property 5 years ago, I noticed that the builder/developer of this wonderful platt that I live in, used the low spot between my neighbor and I to create a retention pool for construction run-off waste. I knew this of course when I built on the property. Actually the retention pool was kind of cool. We had those 3in’ green frogs everywhere. I noticed that near the intersection of the pool and the creek , there were spring woodland wildflowers like trillium and “jack in the pulpit” abound

But of course at some point, the construction stopped and the need for the retention pool ceased to exist. So, it was turned into a culvert that now empties into the creek. that is, now the storm sewer empties into the creek instead of being retained by the retention pool which was there originally to make sure the construction run-off would leach into the soil rather get dumped into the creek

So now it has leached into the soil. I call this pull- ution. I guess I am lucky that I do not own that 10ft wide drainage easement where I used to enjoy all those woodland wildflowers

jrd

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