County Purchases Property To Improve Drainage On Ponderosa Drive

November 18, 2014

The Escambia County Commission voted Monday night to purchase two pieces of property in the Ensley area to improve stormwater drainage.

The properties are located on Ponderosa Drive, where the county already has a small retention pond that proved to be inadequate during flooding earlier this year. Following Monday night’s vote, the pond will be expanded onto most of three additional acres.

The 1.01 acre property and house at 1861 Ponderosa Drive will be purchased by the county for $85,000, which is above appraised value of $75,000, and the 3.01 acre parcel and house at 1871 Ponderosa Drive from Charles and Anna M. McSwain, for  $103,000, which is above the appraised value of $90,000.

Both properties, along with other residences on Ponderosa Drive, flooded during rain event earlier this year.

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One Response to “County Purchases Property To Improve Drainage On Ponderosa Drive”

  1. Greg on November 18th, 2014 2:11 pm

    I congratulate the county. They have helped two (2) families who lost all during the April 29, 2014 flood event. This expansion of a holding pond in this area was sorely needed. Our property is next to this holding pond and we lost over $1 million dollars of machines in our machine shop which has been in service since 1976 with no flooding ever. It took eight (8) days for the more than 48″ of water to drain away.

    Thank you Steven Barry for your tireless effort, this is great news to our neighborhood and all of the citizens of Escambia County.

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