STORMWATER issues at Blackstone Heights could be eased following a decision at last week's council meeting.
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The Meander Valley Council voted last Tuesday to install stormwater drainage across two properties on Panorama Road.
The decision followed extensive discussion from the council as it discussed how best to tackle the growing suburb's problems with floods.
The council has been investigating for some time its rights involved in addressing the problem.
Properties have been subject to flooding as recently as last month.
Meander Valley Council Mayor Craig Perkins explained the works could be done without the property owners' permission as the area lay within an easement.
He said the council's general manager, Greg Preece, had been asked to put in an offer to owners of nearby vacant land to possibly prevent this from happening.
``Greg has been asked to make an offer without prejudice to put open stormwater drains in their properties, but if they don't do that we will go through the easement,'' he said.
The meeting agenda noted the concern of one resident but acknowledged that both were aware the council had the authority to undertake the works.