Residents call for new pond (From Watford Observer)
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Residents call for new pond
9:30am Tuesday 23rd June 2009 in News
Members of the village’s residents’ association are calling for the construction of a new pond.
Association secretary Dr Joan Zanelli said an Ordnance Survey map form 1878 showed that five ponds once flourished in the village.
Three of these have long-since disappeared and two (at Little Green and near Killingdown Farm) remain overgrown and empty.
The association believes the building of a pond at a new site is the best option – to improve the image of the village and promote the environment.
Dr Zanelli said funding could be obtained from a number of charitable or government organisations, adding that some 40 residents had already signed a petition in favour of a pond in or around The Green.
The association, she said, would continue its discussions with the parish council.
Comments(5)
Phoenix Keeper
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10:22am Tue 23 Jun 09
Perhaps they could also look to 1878 and get rid of their cars and travel by foot or horse as cars didn't exist in 1878. This would also promote the environment, reducing posionous exhaust emissions!
Or perhaps, with my cynical head on, they want to improve the image of the village to increase the value of their properties in the housnig market! Cynical, moi??
chocco
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11:05pm Tue 23 Jun 09
ALLOW THE BLOODY GRASS TO BE CUT PROPERLY ON THE GREEN THEN.OH ONE MUST NOT CUT THE WILD GRASS. WELL IT LOOKS A BLOODY MESS.If a pond was put "on the green" someones sure to fall in it for not being able to see where there going.
Bart Onway
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6:32am Wed 24 Jun 09
Gentleman
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2:24pm Fri 26 Jun 09
Anything to improve the practical and/or aesthetic aspects of CG is to be welcome. I am not sure as to why PK from Garston has a problem with improvements increasing property prices unless of course he/she is simply jealous. Car parks etc. I don’t think so. It is a pond not a swimming pool. Those of us that live in CG and care about retention of its semi rural environment will, I am sure, welcome such an initiative.
RSIAP says...
10:10am Tue 23 Jun 09
Ponds might have been all the rage 100 years ago but i dont recall a pond building programme recently and i dont expect one to be announced.If people want to sit by the water,pop over to the canal or river.Put a pond there and you create a beacon for all the low life drinkers and druggies to home in on.....