Developers Unaware of Water Issue on Timber Grove

The stake holders in a proposed housing development in Reisterstown said a parcel on Timber Grove Road should not be subject to water problems, echoing statements made at a December meeting in Towson.

John Trueschler, the landscape architect for , said he was told by the Baltimore County Department of Public Works that there were no water pressure issues that would impact a planned 15-house development at 304 Timber Grove Road.

Trueschler was presenting plans at a community input meeting at in Owings Mills Monday evening.

"We would already know if there was a pressure problem," Trueschler said. He was not, however, certain if the area was facing a problem with water storage.

Public Works has previously said that in Reisterstown's Fifth Water Pressure Zone. The proposed location of the Timber Grove Estates development falls within that zone.

But Ayanna Chen, member of in the residential area, was confused by the county's apparent thumbs-up to the developer.

If there was indeed a water shortage in the area, "how could the county willingly exacerbate the problem?" she said.

Trueschler said he would ask Baltimore County for a letter stating that water storage and pressure were not an issue in the area.

He also said that while water issues had not been identified in conversations with Public Works, he did vaguely remember hearing about a potential water tower in the area on the radio.