{"id":21731,"date":"2022-04-13T22:52:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T02:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=21731"},"modified":"2022-04-13T22:52:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T02:52:43","slug":"lakeland-residents-upset-to-see-new-development-get-sewer-line-hook-up-before-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/04\/13\/lakeland-residents-upset-to-see-new-development-get-sewer-line-hook-up-before-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland residents upset to see new development get sewer line hook-up before them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some members of a Polk County community say they are upset to see a new development get a sewer hook-up when they&#8217;ve been asking for the same thing for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crescent Heights is tucked into the northwest Lakeland community, right alongside the new Bonnet Spring development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"478\" height=\"486\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2-4.png 478w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2-4-295x300.png 295w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve been here for 30 years, and for 30 years we\u2019ve been asking for a sewer line to hook up to our septic tanks,\u201d said resident Audrey Figgs. \u201cA year ago I came out here and saw a man hooking up a sewer line for the park.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" data-id=\"21734\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bonnet-Springs-P.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bonnet-Springs-P.png 225w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bonnet-Springs-P-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" data-id=\"21733\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/download-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21733\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bonnet Springs Park has been under construction for about a year and city officials say a $200,000 payment to Lakeland Water Utilities is why they got the sewer line hook-up so quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the same, Figgs and several other residents in the area said they should have the same access to underground sewage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhere do our tax dollars go?\u201d asked Figgs. \u201cWho\u2019s spending our money?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Figgs pointed to documents dating back to the 90s that show she had been in conversation with Water Utilities in regards to the underground sewage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey investigated the possibility of extending sewer to the Crescent Heights area over 20 years ago,\u201d she said. \u201cSo what\u2019s taking so long?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, all the waste that goes down a toilet that\u2019s not connected to a sewer line has the potential to get backed up and resurface on that person\u2019s yard or somewhere else on the property. A sewer line hook-up guarantees that all that activity happens underground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s no community in the city of Lakeland as old as this one and we have a right,&#8221; Figgs said. &#8220;I\u2019m tired \u2014 I\u2019m 73 years old, I ain\u2019t going to live forever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city of Lakeland is currently working with engineers to complete a septic sewer study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"935\" height=\"422\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 935px) 100vw, 935px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/septic-system.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/septic-system.png 935w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/septic-system-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/septic-system-768x347.png 768w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRegarding Crescent Heights, we are currently engaged with an engineering firm that is completing a septic-to-sewer&nbsp;study of six different areas to determine feasibility and potential costs to install and connect homes to&nbsp;sewer,\u201d said city spokesman Kevin Cook. \u201cCrescent Heights is included in this study, but based on the slope of the land a gravity&nbsp;sewer&nbsp;would not work and pumps stations would be needed to pump waste uphill. This would add to the cost for residents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City officials say they hope to have the results from the study in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some members of a Polk County community say they are upset to see a new development get a sewer hook-up when they&#8217;ve been asking for the same thing for decades.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[2710],"class_list":["post-21731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-lakeland-residents-upset-to-see-new-development-get-sewer-line-hook-up-before-them"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}