RubberBuzz || Akron Unleashed: Why I Haven't Bought a House: Part 3

6.29.2005

Why I Haven't Bought a House: Part 3

That's it. It's official. I'm never going to buy a house. Between the meth labs, bees and beavers, I'm doomed when it comes to home-buying. Maybe I'll just wait until winter and build an igloo.

The watery nightmare of Ronald and Pamela Lockett may be ending.

The couple's West Akron home had been threatened by rising waters from a beaver-dam- created wetland behind the Thurston Street home they purchased April 18.

The water had reached the Locketts' property line, where a few cattails grow, and they were spending hundreds of dollars a month on electric bills to keep three sump pumps running.[...]

Last week, city employees trapped two beavers and partially lowered the animals' dam near St. Michaels and Courtland avenues east of Collier Road about three-quarters of a mile from the Locketts' house.[...]

Jim Hewitt, Akron's superintendent of sewer maintenance, said the city got involved because the beavers built their dam on the city-owned Frederick Ditch, which carries storm-water runoff from West Akron into Pigeon Creek, a tributary of the Tuscarawas River.

The water that had backed up behind the dam covered an area of four or five city blocks, Hewitt said.

Since the city stepped in and stopped the beavers and their damming, the water level has dropped 18 inches. With my luck, I'm sure I wouldn't have noticed the water until I had a flooded basement full of beavers. They'd be down there using old boxes and Christmas decorations to build a new dam. Then the city wouldn't come and trap the beavers because they're on private property. Then the beavers and I would end up mortal enemies, there'd be a big fight scene and the beavers would bite me, I'd get rabies and die, and the beavers would have the house to themselves.

The BJ :: Flooding ebbs as beaver pond recedes

(joe :: Why I Haven't Bought a House: Part 3)

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