Here’s an old streetscape from somewhere in South Carolina. Where is it? Send your guess to feedback@statehousereport.com — and remember to include your name, home city and contact information.
Last week’s mystery, “Jet pond,” showed a Boeing stormwater retention pond outside the Boeing plant at Charleston International Airport. Thanks to Georgia’s Rob Ponder for the photo.
Congratulations to several readers who identified it: George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Jacie Godfrey ad Barry Wingard, both of Florence; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Will Williams of Aiken; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Wayne Beam of Clemson; Curtis Joyner of Charleston; Will Bradley of Las Vegas, Nevada; Pat Keadle of Wagener; Bill Segars of Hartsville; Harvey Shackelford of Newberry; Frank Bouknight of Summerville; and Elizabeth Jones and Jay Altman of Columbia.
Peel shared, “Measuring over 1,400-feet long by 550-feet wide, the pond is about 15 football fields in size. It can hold the same amount of water as 100 Olympic-size swimming pools. The land mass that juts out into the pond looks like a jet airplane and is huge … 1.5-acres in size. Locally, the retention pond is known as The Plane Pond and air passengers departing from, or arriving at, the Charleston International Airport get the best view of the feature from the air.”
- Send us a mystery. If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: feedback@statehousereport.com and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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