Greetings Al Ray,

This webpage is designed to show you the rain water challenges we are encountering around the track site in Maury County Park. Some of these issues have been around a very long time while others have developed in the last 10 years or less. This is our attempt to show you what we have done to mitigate rain water issues and the areas of concern we have. It is our hope, that after reviewing this information, we can come up with a plan and the county will secure funding to correct some of these issues.

This is where the track crosses the walking path. We are not sure what changes have been made further up the hill (towards the street side) but we have noticed an increased amount of water flow in this area.

All this water is now flowing down the walking path instead of the culberts.

This area is being affected by at least a few issues. Issues one is related to the increased water flow from Area #1.

After the new water line was installed at the park (between White Oak and Kids Kingdom Bathrooms in Feb of 2016) The water no long flows in the paths we created in 1998.

As you can see below, the original design of the bridge was to catch any water that came down the field in one of two bridges. With the grading changes from the water line install, this water is now being pushed onto the walking path and then onto the track, further down then it was previously.

There is additional rainwater coming from the hill where the station is located, and the bathrooms, all converging on the walking path and then down to the same area, just compounding the issue.

So, this brings us to Area #3. Additional water from the field (below dog park) and white oak parking lot all converges at this point into the creek bed. The blue arrows indicate where rainwater has been observed to flow. The red line is another drainage ditch, but nothing seems to make it that way from our side. At one time, there was flow, as the park had to install riprap in that ditch to prevent continued erosion.

The grate pictured here is connected to a line that runs into the creek next to us as well. You can see the “berm” along the fence line that pushes all rain water down the walking path and towards the creek.

As you can see from these videos, the creek bed just can’t handle the volume of water that is being pushed down to that area.