Over the past couple of years, the pond at Sherman Drive and Hercules Lane had become a body of water enjoyed by people in and outside of the Sherman Crossing neighborhood in northeast Denton. They would linger on the walkway near the pond and marvel at the family of beavers, the Canada geese and other wildlife that had come to call it home.
The area had become “wonderful and a little nature preserve with 12 different species of bird, fish, the beavers, really diverse,” said Ricky Barnett, who lives nearby and took his children to enjoy it like other nearby neighbors.
But it was a little nature preserve that shouldn’t have been. It was designed to be a detention pond, which temporarily holds stormwater, but it was acting as a retention pond, which retains stormwater…