"P. Fritz" wrote in message ...
"JohnH" wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:59:25 -0400, thunder
wrote:

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:58:17 +0000, Doug Kanter wrote:


Back to the positive: Around here, almost every new townhouse
development
has to have a pond, so that the place looks good in brochures. With
NO
exceptions, the pond ends up being useless to the residents because
the
geese move in. This is an instance where The Person Responsible
should be
tied to a chair and be subject to questions from the residents and
pelting
with rotten fruit. Probably the architect.

Without knowing the specifics, I'm sure many of those ponds serve as
retention basins. Better to blame Mother Nature's downpours, than the
architect.

Get a a href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=1&k=radio%20controlled%20boat" onmouseover="window.status='radio controlled boat'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;"radio controlled boat/a. They make great geese chasers.

The architect has nothing to do with the pond......that would be the civil
engineer. You need to get rid of the grass....the geese love that, or make
really steep banks.



Not necessarily. It may well be the Landscape Architect that made
ponds for aesthetic reasons. If it is purely for retension, or
detention of runoff, then yes, it would be the Civil Engineer.