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Updated 12/27/2011

2011-2012  Meeting Schedule is listed below.... Update your calendar!

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Tax District 24 28 None 23 27 26 23 21 25 23 27 24

Neighborhood Problem

Hillsborough County Neighborhood Conference  The neighborhood conference is held in March each year.  Program provides leaders information on what other neighborhoods are doing to improve their situation.

 

ost Dog Report:  11/28/2011.  Rosie, is missing and the owners are worried.  If you have seen this dog, please call the number listed. 

Update:  Someone took Rosie to the Pet Hospital on Twin Lakes Blvd.  She was fine and returned to her owners.  Thanks to that person that took the time to protect Rosie's life. 

HOA New Website:  Please visit the new website that has been posted on the internet.  www.logangatevillage.infHo

Hillsborough County EPC Selects the Tax District Proposal:  HELP WANTED!

We are looking for volunteers to help us with the Artificial Wetland Cell Project.  You do not need any special skills, just a desire to help with the project.  First we will build the cells.  We will be using plastic pipe to build the cells, plants will be added to the cell and they will be anchored in our ponds.  Then we will have the task to measure and monitor their status.  Digital pictures will need to be taken, field reports completed and samples taken and delivered to the laboratory drop points for evaluation.  If you feel you have time and can help us, please contact me.  Don Hardy, president@logangatevillage.org  813 968 2163.

Tax district president Don Hardy made a presentation to the EPC's citizen board requesting funding for an Artificial Wetland Cell project.  The $5,500 project received the recommendation of both the EPC staff, and the citizen board. 

Wetlands filter and clean storm water runoff.  The wetland cells are designed to help consume the excess nutrients that are in our ponds.  By consuming the nutrients, algae and duck weed will not be able to thrive in such abundance that they over populate the ponds. 

Traffic Light for Logan Gate Village Dr and Henderson Road:  Traffic engineering professionals have resurveyed the intersection.  The criteria for approving intersections for a traffic control device must now meet 8 points.  This intersection barely meets 1 of the 8.  End result, we have been notified that there will be no traffic control device for this intersection.

Artificial Wetland Cell Project:  Follow these links to download PDF documents on the Artificial Wetland Cell.  These documents can guide you to understanding and building your own artificial wetland cell.  This project is designed to help cleanup our polluted ponds.  Comments can be made to president@logangatevillage.org.

Presentation Slides    Artificial Wetland Cell 1 Page    Component List   Artificial Wetland Design Sheets 2

Practical Significance of Mud   Clean Water   Nitrogen Cycle   Artificial Wetland Cell Build Sheet

Pond Watch Volunteers Wanted:  John McGee an Environmental Specialist with the Hillsborough County Adopt-A-Pond program is looking for volunteers to take monthly measurements at the in-flow and out-flow points of ponds in neighborhoods.  The goal is to establish some standardized reporting on the water quality in ponds throughout the county.  Currently water quality is unknown for many ponds.  If you are interested, contact president@logangatevillage.org for more information. 

 

Homeowners that live on these ponds are missing out on considerable amounts of money for  the care of ponds that are registered in the program.  The Tax District Board has been active in helping homeowners with their ponds and you are encouraged to enroll your pond in the program.   Here is a link to the count program website. http://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/public works/engineering/stormwater/adoptapond.cfm

October 2006:  Homeowner James Smith as Adopt-a-Pond coordinator for Trucious Pond has launched a floating island out on the pond.  The Special Tax District provided the funding for this project.  The 100 square foot island features marginal plants that are common to the state of Florida. Plants included are Blue Flag Iris, Arrowhead and Bull Rush.  The purpose of the floating island is to have plant root systems help absorb the super-nutrients that are causing the duckweed infestation each year.  Nitrogen and phosphates are washing into the ponds from neighbor's yards and street stormwater runoff.  Grass clippings, leaves that get washed into the pond are decomposing and partially causing the nitrogen infusion. 

The island concept is based on hydroponics which is the cultivation of plants by placing the roots in liquid nutrient solutions rather than in soil; soil-less growth of plants