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Country club pond drained for storm

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 09/06/08

Tropical Storm Hanna and an enduring squabble between the county and a Severna Park country club have spelled a death sentence for most wildlife in a 7-acre pond.

Paul W. Gillespie — The Capital Large pumps sit beside a pond on the Chartwell Country Club Golf Course on St. Andrews Road. The pumps were used to drain the pond, so that rains from Tropical Storm Hanna would not overflow, possibly bursting an already damaged dam and spilling several hundred thousand gallons of water onto Benfield Road.
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There was not time for an untold number of fish and possibly turtles, frogs and other creatures to be rescued before officials drained the Chartwell Country Club pond yesterday to stave off an impending catastrophe.

Were Hanna to dump several inches of water into a full pond as she traverses Maryland today, the pressure could have breached an already-failing dam, sending several hundred-thousand gallons of water and silt from the pond, barreling down a nearby gully...

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