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Nine Mile Widening Project Update
March 4, 2017
Work on the Nine Mile Road widening project, between Beulah Road and Pine Forest Road, is focused on relocating utilities and clearing stormwater pond sites.
A new 16-inch water main extends the full length of the work zone, between Beulah Road and Surrey Lane (pictured top).
Work to construct one of eight stormwater retention ponds is underway. Pictured left, heavy equipment is used to clear trees and other vegetation.
The retention ponds are designed to collect storm water runoff. This reduces the potential for lowland flooding by stemming the flow of storm water to downstream areas. It also allows for natural filtration that helps remove potentially damaging contents like sediment, petroleum residue from the roadway, and pesticides from adjacent areas.
Pictured below, crews are working to install a new 16-inch water main along the south side of Nine Mile Road, adjacent to the Nature Trail subdivision. The new water main must be installed and the existing water main must be taken out of service so the new eastbound roadway can be constructed.
Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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4 Responses to “Nine Mile Widening Project Update”
Holding pond regulations are mostly nonsense which adds cost, time, and complexity to every major road project. Once completed, they are rarely maintained eyesores which, when needed years later, fail and cause far more damage then not putting them in to begin with would of caused. One only has to look back to the flooding a year or so ago where poorly maintained storm water drainage and holding ponds caused flooding and road damage all over the county.
Once upon a time we built roads to move people. Now in addition to the road, regulations require larger pull over lanes, bike lanes, holding ponds, sound barriers, and numerous other adders that now cost more per mile than the road.
The county puts the fences around the retention ponds because some one will not be watching the child. The child drowns in the ponds and the parent/parents end up suing the county. It happened several years ago in Santa Rosa County except it was a clay pit.
We have retention ponds all over the area. Why are they made to be an eye sore instead of an asset to the community. We have hundreds of them that are fenced off and look awful instead of allowing them to be open to the public. Maybe even allowing neighborhoods and communities put a side walk around them for walking or a park near by with picnic tables, gazebos, etc. I know they serve a purpose but I feel that if we invested money to make them an asset that would increase the value of the neighborhoods and homes.
Pensacola needs to check out some of the resources from Mckinney TX. It is currently ranked the fastest growing and most desirable city to raise a family. They had very similar growing pains and would be a great resource.
9 Mile Rd. Is an attractive area. It is more upscale than most parts of Pensacola. My concern is that they are going to just ram this widening project through and make it ugly like Michigan or Mobile Hwy.