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douses, tre <br />-to runoff in <br />By Dennis Cassano <br />StaffWrter <br />The sudden appearance of a mile - <br />long lake in Woodbury has prompted <br />It Department of Natural Resources <br />official to charge that the suburb al - <br />)owed itself to grow too fast. <br />This summer, water runoff from <br />nearly two-thirds of the city flooded a <br />brace -marshy area that has become <br />Bailey Lake, killing more than 100 <br />trees in a rare oak savanna. <br />It has forced the city to <br />es are lost <br />houses and relocate the families at a <br />cost of about $400,000 so the water <br />can be drained. In addition, a princi- <br />pal road has been flooded and closed <br />since August.. The water washed out a <br />residential driveway that the city has <br />rebuilt twice. An emergency plan has <br />been developed in case expensive <br />houses adjacent to the lake have to <br />be sandbagged and the homeowners <br />evacuated during the spring thaw. <br />And developers were told this month <br />that future projects will not be a] - <br />Woodbury continued on page I6A <br />Staff Photo by Duane Braley <br />f Woodbury's new lake has closed Dale Rd. since August and forced the city to buy two homes and relocate the <br />families at a cost of about $400,000. <br />;Woodbury/ City had planned <br />to create lake, but not this soon <br />Continued from page 1A o_ - Shodeen said this week, "We cold <br />this <br />week <br />"W e Iola <br />