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Plan stirs concerns over lakes silt problem
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John Cornelson, president of the Chattahoochee Estates West Property Owners Association, points out areas of Knickerbocker Lake in his backyard that have been filled with silt over the past several years. Residents are concerned about increased siltation and fear development will further harm the lake. - photo by Erin O. Smith
A zoning request that goes before Gainesville City Council on Tuesday is tearing at old wounds over concerns about increased siltation in Lake Knickerbocker, a dammed-up part of Ada Creek. The lake “has struggled significantly over the past 30 years and dramatically over the past 15, from radical silting created by stormwater runoff rushing regularly into its several tributaries,” resident David Gleason said in a Dec. 9 letter to the city’s Planning and Appeals Board. At stake now is a request from Treadwell and Deborah Syfan to amend the existing planned unit development on 5.4 acres on Greystone Road, west of Tommy Aaron Drive, permitting four single-family residential lots.