GRIMES, Iowa — Grimes residents of the Beaverbrooke Neighborhood have complained to the city about the condition of the Gabus Pond for over a decade.
“I have contacted the city numerous times. All the neighbors have contacted the city with complaints of all the algae and the overgrown grass that they put in. There hasn’t been any maintenance and this year it really got bad,” said Georgiana Droffner, a grimes resident who lives next to Gabus pond.
Droffner says she was told by the city that the pond would be maintained when she moved in 10 years ago…