Kensington Grove is part of Greenwood's southern expansion — a growing subdivision of contemporary homes where everything underground is as new as everything above it. Laterals are PVC, cleanouts are where the plans say they are, and the storm system still carries the brightness of recent construction. A new system invites a dangerous assumption: that drainage is a solved problem for a generation. Kensington Grove's own evidence — the same hard water as the rest of the city, the same clay beneath the topsoil, construction still finishing streets around it — argues for a better plan: start the record now, while 'perfect' is still the baseline everything can be compared to.
The new-build issues here are the young city's own. Construction debris still washes out of lines in their first years. Backfill settles around new laterals and can open the early belly that a camera would catch in minutes. Landscaping is young but ambitious, and the trees planted this decade will be the root pressure of the next. None of this is alarming; all of it is knowable — and a subdivision whose owners establish surveys early will age into the best-maintained streets in Greenwood.
