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Originally Posted by TeacherAmy
We'd really been charmed by the neighborhood at TPAWL, and we were so happy to find 'wavers'. 
One of the houses we looked at was actually abutting the water treatment plant. We'd heard that there had been an odor issue at one time that got straightened out within a year or so, but that people are a little leery of the neighborhood because of that. I'd really like to know the real scoop from residents about whether you ever do notice its presence, whether because of odor, noise, bright lights, etc. TIA for your candid thoughts. |
I have lived in the neighborhood since 11/2007.
I have never smelled anything on my property. The only area within the neighborhood where I ever detected any sort of odor is the far Southeast segment of Capulin Crest Drive (From Approximately 7376 Capulin Crest down to 7352 or so). When we were looking at homes a number of the homes on the East side of Gretna Lane were on the market. We ruled those homes out based on floorplan and size but NOT because of proximity to the plant.
The Town of Cary performed an extensive research and remediation project in 2008, hiring a consulting firm to help eliminate the possibility of odors coming from the plant. I would say the efforts were 99% successful. We walk our dog twice daily around the "loop" of Capulin Crest and I can't remember the last time I noticed anything unusual in the air.
In winter (when the leaves are off the trees) the plant can be seen from 5 or 6 backyards on Capulin Crest and a handful of homes on Gretna Lane. All of those homes have sold at least once. One was a foreclosure where Kerr-Smith Homes went bankrupt and the home sold at a low price. The argument could be made that the lot that home sat on was the single worst lot out of the 190 in the Woodlands-it has the most direct view of the plant as well as a large drainage gulley running down the right side property line.
I'll also go out on a limb and say that a few of the homes that have lingered on the market in the neighborhood were built very early in the neighborhood's development and were not really aesthetically in keeping with what most people would say are the nicest looking properties in TPAWL, lot location notwithstanding. Curb appeal still has a LOT to do with the interest a home receives from buyers.
Vicki R who is a regular around here and a realtor said a while back that she represented the buyer of one of the homes that backed up to the plant and that the buyer didn't mind the plant at all-the buyer stated that having the plant there guaranteed that they knew what would be behind them forever.
Every neighborhood has a handful of lots that are in some way "substandard".
Typically the homes on them sell at the bottom of the neighborhood's price range and take longer to sell. The first buyer gets a bargain and each and every time the home resells it does so at a sub-market price. I'll be the first to admit that I would never buy a lot adjacent to the plant-I have said so before on these forums. That doesn't mean that TPAWL is a neighborhood to avoid IMO. If I look at every home in the Woodlands currently for sale (11) there are only 2 that have any exposure at all to the plant and 1 of those 2 is an aberration-a home that has challenges that go far beyond proximity to the plant.
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