For starters, we don't own the property. There are legal issues for the developer/owner. If he sold a chunk to OPA for the drainage project or even gave it to OPA, it would reduce the number of homes he can build. There are also some issues with leasing any land to OPA.

When the project was conceived OPA was apparently told by the county, or someone, that OPA could dump water in a pond created by the builder for his project. Seems that was the basis of the entire engineering study we paid for.