Residents Request Help as Large Rats Make Their Home at Summit Chase
Residents are asking for help from the city to solve their rodent problem, caused by a broken dam and low water levels.
Residents of the Summit Chase subdivision may have noticed a few irregularities in their neighborhood lately. First of all, the lake is much lower than it should be. The second is a symptom of the first – rodents. Rats. Big ones. Although City of Snellville staff have not seen the rats personally, it is something they take the residents’ word for, according to city manager Butch Sanders. “We also know it comes with living on a lake,” he said. Even when the lake is full, animals, including rats, are going to get into the bank of the lake. “It’s probably worse now,” added Sanders. During an Oct. 22 council meeting, Councilman Mike Sabbagh urged the city to handle the situation “ASAP.” “It’s a community lake,” he said. “The problem I see is …
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Lorry Jordan
12:06 pm on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
The "full" lower lake is part of a system that prevents scouring of the damn that was catorized a class 1 high hazard by the department of natural resources in 2009! We bought our houses as lake front property with the "full" lower lake as a buffer against a severe damn breech which will flood my house as well as several other houses along this system. The rats and continued fish kill and huge … more ›