SubscribeWoodstock water fiasco
Over the last 3 years, many of you have heard us complain about the sewer situation near our house. For as long as we’ve lived here we suffer from a pretty constant sewer gas aroma emanating from the right-of-way by the creek on the right side of our property. It is especially bad on Wednesdays and Sundays. As many of you know, we live right next to first Baptist Woodstock. When the 8″ pipe was originally laid it was built to handle our neighborhood as well as a much smaller 1st Baptist. Since that time, the church has grown to 15,000 people. Several neighborhoods have been added on and they have annexed in a Publix and Kroger shopping center. Numerous calls to Woodstock water have led them to blame everyone they can think of but we’ve talked to the actual foreman and maintenance guys and the cold truth is that they are over capacity for the line. It should now be a minimum of 12″ but as they said “who is going to pay for that?”. In recent months, they’ve added the Martha Stewart community right next to our neighborhood. Today, while Kyle was installing our car seats, a pump truck pulled up. Raw sewage is backing up into the houses in that neighborhood. Awesome….
It has been very frustrating to find that Woodstock Water has annexed many with no care for capacity but when informed of the problem the answer is that there isn’t money to fix it so they will continue to come pump when there is a blockage. This of course DOES NOT help the smell that many of our neighborhoods enjoy on a daily basis. We’ve written our Councilwoman but does anyone else have a suggestion for getting this rectified. It’s getting ridiculous. I hate to wish ill will on our Martha Stewart neighbors but I secretly hope that a few more major sewage backups in a half million dollar subdivision will inspire change. Who knows!?