Floodings of First Christian Church complaint co-opts otherwise brief Watkinsville City meeting
Despite a full house and agenda, the brief July meeting of the Watkinsville City Council was considerably dampened by the declaration of the 70 year old Trustee Roy "Doc" Crawford of the Watkinsville First Christian Church going off on the three City Council members present and Mayor Charles Ivie about the storm water run off ostensibly caused by the Town Center development and the lack of water run off planning by this and the former municipal administration of Joe Walter. Civil War re-enactors address the city council with Stephen Simpson watching "Six and a half hours of soaking up water with shop vacs two days in a row," complained Crawford about the second flooding of the basement in the longtime Watkinsville landmark located at 4 North Main Street. He pointed toward the impervious asphalt surface run off of the neighboiring Town Center development and the lack of proper sewage engineering as the reasons why his place of worship was threatened with wate...