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Perry trustees hear request for drainage work, street light

PERRY TWP. — Township trustees heard requests for help with a drainage problem near Colonial Drive and guidance on how to get a street light in the area of Beechwood and Allen Road when they met Monday night.

William Slanker, who owns farm land near MAC Trailer on Allen Road, said he’s talked with some neighbors on Beechwood and would like to see a light put up somewhere in that area. Slanker said it’s dark there and they’ve had some incidents with mailboxes and items disappearing. He said the police department does a good job of trying to catch the people, but they all thought a light could help.

He didn’t know if he would have to pay for the pole or how that would work and noted he talked to Ohio Edison and was told to go see the trustees.

Trustee Chairman Cliff Mix said the cost would go on the taxes of the residents there, the bill would come to the township and it would become a lighting district.

“I don’t want to see you guys have to pay for it, but it would be really nice to have one,” Slanker said.

He said he’ll get a list of other residents together to present to trustees to make the request. Both Mix and Trustee Don Kendrick stressed that residents in the lighting district will pay for the light, the pole and the electricity to power it.

For the drainage problem, Fred Reeves and Crit and Donna Smallwood, all of Colonial Drive, and Carol Planisky of Goshen Road asked trustees to clean out the drainage ditch which is part of the natural water flow for the area at their properties. Reeves explained that when a large culvert was placed along Goshen Road to help with water on that side, he said all that water now goes into their little ditch, which turns into a river when it rains and floods their yards to the point they can’t be used.

Planisky said the water has turned green and has become home to all kinds of little critters, including muskrat, bull frogs and a ton of mosquitoes which is bothersome. She also said it’s starting to stink and there’s nothing but sludge there.

Donna Smallwood told trustees they could have access through her property to dredge the ditch.

Mix said they would have to put the project out for bid and said there’s another problem back in there that another resident told them about, so they’ll probably take care of it all at once. He said it probably won’t be for a couple of months, telling them they’ll have to be patient.

They also told trustees about all the trash that gets dumped there from passing motorists which gets stuck in the ditch and slows the flow of water. They were told to try to get license plate numbers and call police when they see stuff getting dumped.

The next trustee meeting will be 6:30 p.m. April 10.

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