Roebuck Springs Dam Update

September 26th, 2008

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Glynn Wilson
The city of Birmingham began work today on restoring a dam destroyed last Friday without a permit on Village Creek. City crews piled up dirt on both sides of where the pond flows into a drainage pipe, planted grass seed, and placed sand bags in the breach to form a temporary spillway. This is the scene as of about 3 p.m. Friday. More later…

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