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Bauer
voices cove concerns
to commissioners again
Photo courtesy Ken Fortenberry (News
@ Norman)
Rudy Bauer speaks before an overflow
crowd at a Lincoln County Commission
meeting.
BY JON
MAYHEW
January 11, 2012 (Denver) –
Despite having a new owner in
Fifth/Third Bank, the former Burton
Creek subdivision continues to be a
sore spot for Denver resident Rudy
Bauer.
Despite being previously escorted off
the podium by Lincoln County
Sheriff’s deputy Jeff Warlick at
the behest of county commission
chairman Alex Patton, Bauer returns
twice per month to talk about the
coves in his neighborhood.
Monday night’s meeting was no
exception as Bauer came up to the
podium during the public comments
portion of the meeting.
“I want to see if the deputy is
around here,” joked Bauer before
he discussed the cove issue.
He asked Lincoln County Manager
George Wood if Wood sent someone to
look at the coves after the rains
Lincoln County experienced after
Christmas.
Wood’s answer was yes.
“The detention ponds are
working,” replied Wood.
Bauer, however, said he begs to
differ with Wood. Bauer said
Fifth-Third Bank did come in and
redid the detention ponds. The move,
according to Bauer, was not enough.
“The bank won’t do anything
until the market comes up,” said
Bauer. “Then we’ll have to
start all over again.”
“My resolution is to get
something done about this issue this
year.”
Wood kindly told Bauer the county has
been through this issue with the
81-year-old resident “three or
four” times.
“There will be discolored water
in coves with natural rainfall,”
said Wood. “You want something
to be there that isn’t
there.”
Bauer responded by telling Lincoln
County Commissioners that when it
rains, there are mounds of dirt where
dirt washes down.
Bauer asked how he can measure the
dirt in the coves to prove dirt is
filling the coves when it rains.
“We didn’t have (brown
water) when I moved there in
2001,” said Bauer.
Commissioner Carrol Mitchem pointed
out a retention pond does not serve
as a water treatment plant.
Commission chairman Alex Patton took
Mitchem’s sentiment one step
further.
“It’s never going to make
the water crystal clear,” said
Patton. “It’s not supposed
to.”
