Eroding Developments
Halted construction fills waterways with silt.
Tom Rosa measures erosion at Edenmoor development in Indian Land, SC.
INDIAN LAND, S.C. -- Residents in a subdivision of two-story brick homes near the North Carolina state line say they were promised roads and ball fields and tennis courts. But the developer has vanished, and the neighbors never came, so when the rains do, the ground crumbles.
The potholes at Edenmoor are big enough to swallow car tires these days. With every deluge, miniature Grand Canyons carve through the red clay of the abandoned home sites, clogging a nearby stream with dirt and adding to a growing environmental problem.
The housing bust that has pockmarked the nation's landscape with half-built construction projects has done more than crash home values.
