Photo of ponding on Barnwood Drive

It doesn’t take much moisture to cause significant ponding in a swale on Barnwood Drive, located between the medical center parking lot and the Deerhammer Distillery building, just east of the Police Station. Because there is no infrastructure on the Deerhammer property to receive and move stormwater draining from the medical center parking lot, that water quickly accumulates in the street with no place to go, making the sidewalk impassable and the street hazardous to drive. In effect, this portion of Barnwood Drive becomes a small detention pond.