If you attend meetings you'll note that the subject of the Water Amenities report, more often than not, relates to the boat landing. Go back to the minutes for yourself. We paid to build a second dock, tore down the first (original dock), and rebuilt it. There is always concern about who is using the landing, what we should do about the key cards, whether we should buy a special system for the gate, how much material should we buy for the road, etc. Doesn't the Water Amenities Committee cover protecting the canals?
Whether you agreed with the dredging of the canals, or not, all of us paid to have them dredged. In fact, usage of the canals by those who live in Wedgefield, or who come in from the river is up. I can verify that myself. At least 3-5 days a week, we have a boat or two fishing in our area. It is great! We love to observe them from our porch, and see the type and number of fish that they are catching. Since we are at the very end of the chain of canals, many of you must at least observe them traveling to their fishing spots, even if they haven't stopped in your back yard. Since the dredging, boats have even traveled all the way in, at lowering tides.
Wedgefield spent a significant amount of money on the dredging, and the results are there, as far as usage. Yet, there is never a report about the conditions in the canals, monitoring the canals, like the board does the landing, - NOTHING! Why hasn't anyone on the board, or the Water Amenities Committee, come up with a plan to monitor the canals, possibly by boat, on any schedule, to protect the dredging that caused lawsuits, counter suits, and was a major investment in the property values of this association?
When I did write the board quite some time ago, it was because landscapers were dumping cuttings, etc., into the canals. Private residents have been known to throw broken up cement drive way pieces into the canals, and their own plant cuttings! Your board built a bulkhead at some points poorly, and soil, gravel, and even cement leached into the canal. I took pictures of the pile of dirt in the canal in the past.
About six weeks ago a private landscaper trimmed tree branches and let them fall into the canal, and didn't retrieve them, and carry them away. Every day at lowering tides they stand out to catch debris coming in.
Grass clippings, leaves, and pine straw are dumped regularly into the same spot. They float and then filter down to silt the canal in.
Will I write the board? Absolutely not! Why? Because they never answer completely, and I'm not into any more of their grief, because they don't like the writer. Additionally, based on the fact that they don't report on these canals, it could appear that they don't care. If you live on the canals, maybe you should care. If you don't, remember, we all paid. Well, I take that back, one canal lot owner didn't, and your board settled the case, but are so uninterested in keeping us up to date, that they haven't reported on the case since 2014.
