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Eight to ten red cedar trees bordering the pond were damaged
or destroyed by a wet, heavy snowfall that occurred in 1990-91.
The weight of the snow broke many of the trees. Trees and tree
limbs fell into the pond from 1991 to early 1994. Petitioners
did not replace those trees.
In 1992, petitioners caught fish in the pond and ate them.
The pond became stagnant and polluted late in 1993 because trees
had fallen into the pond and had not been removed, sediment had
accumulated in the pond, and the pond was surrounded by brush.
By the summer of 1994, the fish in the pond had died, the pond
was shallow and smelled bad, and its banks had eroded.
2. Restoration and Improvement of Petitioners’ Pond
Petitioners hired Shepard Construction in 1994 to restore
the pond. Shepard Construction deepened the pond by removing
sediment and trees from the bottom of the pond, rebuilt a road
around the levee, removed two peninsulas from the pond, created
an island in the pond from sediment from the bottom of the pond
and soil from the levee, and removed trees surrounding the pond,
including some trees that had not been damaged. Shepard
Construction improved the pond beyond its pre-1991 condition and
increased its value.
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