For more than three years residents from Phase 5 SCHH have been trying to get their shoddily constructed lagoons (stormwater management ponds) fixed. THREE YEARS! They've contacted Pulte, Beaufort County, DHEC, the Army Corps of Engineers, and county and state government representatives about the shoddily constructed lagoons.
SCDHEC-OCRM (South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Ocean and Coastal Resource Management) has known about the shoddily built lagoons for more than TWO years. Last year DHEC OCRM ordered as-builts for the shoddily constructed lagoons that PROVE that they’re shoddily constructed (never mind all the photos!).
Pulte develops an “action plan” that conveniently omits 11 of 20 lagoons that as-built information shows have as-built bottom elevations higher than the elevations called for in the approved construction drawings. Pulte's "action plan" also fails to address pipes that connect ponds that may be filled with silt.
Pulte then begins to “fix” the lagoons. Take a look at the photo of the “fixed” control structure. Take a look at the photo of the "fixed" embankment—the one with the tree in it!
Yet Pulte marches on, without being fined for the shoddy construction, and WITH the approval of Pulte’s engineer, DHEC, and MANY SCHH residents.
What’s going on here?
“The thing about beating your head against the wall is that it feels so good when you stop.”
SCDHEC-OCRM (South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Ocean and Coastal Resource Management) has known about the shoddily built lagoons for more than TWO years. Last year DHEC OCRM ordered as-builts for the shoddily constructed lagoons that PROVE that they’re shoddily constructed (never mind all the photos!).
Pulte develops an “action plan” that conveniently omits 11 of 20 lagoons that as-built information shows have as-built bottom elevations higher than the elevations called for in the approved construction drawings. Pulte's "action plan" also fails to address pipes that connect ponds that may be filled with silt.
Pulte then begins to “fix” the lagoons. Take a look at the photo of the “fixed” control structure. Take a look at the photo of the "fixed" embankment—the one with the tree in it!
Yet Pulte marches on, without being fined for the shoddy construction, and WITH the approval of Pulte’s engineer, DHEC, and MANY SCHH residents.
What’s going on here?
“The thing about beating your head against the wall is that it feels so good when you stop.”
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