Frustration grows with county government officials over fallen tree

When a large tree crashed into Kathryn Reich's backyard in late April during a storm, the Longview Drive resident never expected it would take more than three months to get it removed.

Last week, six of Reich's neighbors gathered to rally around her to have the large tree, still draped across a large portion of her yard, removed by Baltimore County.

They would also like to see the stream in which the tree had been growing maintained by the county.

"Nobody is maintaining the stream and it's becoming a real problem," said Reich, who has lived on the street off Ingleside Avenue near Baltimore National Pike since 1985.

The county used to maintain the stream, which flows to a stormwater pond behind the homes, Reich said.

"When they developed Maple Woods, because they knew that was going to cause additional flooding problems which is why the pond got built we were told, 'We're going to maintain the pond because that was built to control the flow of water...We're going to take care of this for you so we can get these townhouses up,'" Reich said.

"Isn't that what they told us?" Reich said, looking to her neighbors.

Jerry Kloby, 79, who lives five houses down, nodded his head in agreement, "Yes, yes."

The 20-foot wide easement is in front of a wooded parcel of land that separates the homes on Longview, part of the Longview Place subdivision built in 1953, from Maple Woods, a development built in 1991.

But who owns the wooded property remains in question.

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Frustration grows with county government officials over fallen tree