Richland HOA Annual Meeting - Special Edition

   

Richland HOA Annual Meeting Oct 24th

The Richland HOA annual meeting occurred the evening of October 24th. We were able to live stream it to the Richland Facebook page - but know that some people had difficulty joining. We also have a few technical difficulties - clearly we aren't FB influencers!


Here are the videos from the meeting:

Part 1.

Part 2.

The Full PPT Presentation is here.

During the meeting, a participant asked for copies of the Reserve Study. The last Study was done in 2020 - a copy can be found herea copy can be found here. Please note - you will need to have access to Richlander.com to download.

There was also quite alot of discussion regarding the lakes - and the need to remediate the sediment.  Many residents feel that the County has some responsibility for the increase in sedimentation over the past 10 years.  As a result several property owners requested contact information for our County Representive to raise visibility.  Our County Commissioner is Kirkland Carden.   A draft email you can customize is below:

To:  kirkland.carden@gwinnettcounty.com

Subject:  Richland Community - Lake Water Quality

Dear Commissioner Carden,
I am a resident in Gwinnett County and I live in the Richland Neighborhood. I wanted to make you aware of the severe sedimation that has occured in two of the lakes within our community - lakes which are retention ponds that are part of the Yellow River Watershed. While some sedimenation is expected, several Gwinnett County Public Works Projects, as well as failures of County dams and culverts due to extreme weather have exacerbated the sedimentation. Using Satelite imagery, as well as public records, we have noted that 5 major events contributed significantly to the sediment buildup in the lake:


1. In 2004, the County drained Collins Hill Lake in order to replace a sanitary sewer trunk line running under Collins Hill Lake.

2. In 2005 the earthen dam at Wildcat Lake Subdivision failed and washed downstream into Richlake.

3. The county rebuilt the dam at Collins Hill Lake with a concrete base covered in newly compacted soil in 2007. Flooding caused the lake to overflow the dam, washing all of the soil downstream into Richlake.

4. In 2007, Gwinnett County contracted with Appalachian Environmental Services for the Collins Hill High School/Aquatic Center Stream Restoration & BMP Project. The contractor brought in heavy equipment and graded the area along the creek bed. Intensive rains and flash flooding halted the construction for months while the soils destabilized by the contractor washed into Richlake.


5. In September 2009, several county maintained dams and culverts either faled or overtopped, and washed additional sediment and vegetation downstream into Richlake.

Historic aerial imagery shows that Collins Hill Lake has not had as much sediment depositing indicating that most of the sediment from originated from the Collins Hill Lake dam, the Wildcat Creek Lake dam, the Aquatic Center Stream Stabilization Project and the flooding of 2009.


Most of the property owners in the watershed area pay a stormwater service fee. All of the storm water from this watershed area eventually flows into the Richland Community lakes depositing sediment. We are asking that the County allocate some funds, either from the stormwater service fee revenue, or other unobligated funds, for a dredging program for Richlake.

Thank you for your time,

Upcoming Events

• Friday Double Feature Scary Movies- October 28th
• Children's Scary Movie starts at 7pm 
• Adult Scary Movie starts at 9pm
• Saturday BOO-BASH- October 29th 12PM-6PM -
• Inflatables 6PM-until - Costume Contest, Live DJ, Food, Fun for everyone, all ages! 
• Sunday Fall Festival- October 30th 1 to 5pm Vendors, Food Trucks, Wayne's Italian Ice, Music and FUN! 1:30-3:30pm 
• Pony Rides 3:00-5:00pm Hay Rides 1-5:00pm Face Painting 
• Monday Trick or Treating – October 31st 5pm to approx. 9:30

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