VANDERBURGH COUNTY SURVEYOR
VANDERBURGH COUNTY DRAINAGE BOARD
AGENDA
Tuesday, August 24,
2010
Approve
minutes of previous meeting
Drainage
Plans
·
·
Wynnfield
Section One, Revised Final Plan
Drainage
Easement Encroachment Agreement
·
Christopher
Lautner & Sarah Schuler
Construction
Plans and Notice to Bidders
·
Hirsch
Ditch/Stockfleth Ditch at
Claims
from Ditch Contractors
Other
business
Public
comment
Adjourn
See notes:
Higdon Small Lake Subdivision is a 3 lot major subdivision which
if it were a 2-lot subdivision would be a minor subdivision. Lot 1 is located on
Watershore Drive, Lake Kahre Subdivision, Darmstadt; and Lots 2 and 3 are
located on Hillside Drive north of Orchard Road; Vanderburgh County. All the
storm run-off from all the property (except some incidental road drainage)
drains into the existing lake, and there are no wells, springs, seeps or mutual
drains identified on any of the 3 lots that should impact the need for a full
blown drainage plan. The county surveyor recommends approval of the drainage
plan submitted by Easley Engineering.
Wynnfield Sub. Section One brings a revised final drainage plan
the result of negotiations between the developer, the lender, the county
engineer and the county surveyor with the intent of identifying infrastructure
acceptable to release a portion of the letter of credit and infrastructure yet
to be constructed in accordance with approved plans. The plan will show what
drainage facilities are complete and which improvements remain necessary to
complete. The recommendation will be given at the meeting.
Lautner and Schuler return with an updated and completed drainage
easement encroachment agreement showing the finished improvements to their
property including a swimming pool, a stone retaining wall, drainage swale with
subsurface tile, landscaping, etc. some of which lies within the drainage
easement as seen on the drawings submitted by James Farney, PE. The neighbor,
Mr. Herman G. Bear, objected at the previous hearing of this petition, but I am
not able to contact Mr. Bear as his phone number is not listed either in the
book on in the voter registration records. He was at the last meeting, but as we
did not discuss this item, he did not approach the board with comments. I assume
he will attempt to determine whether the issue is on tomorrow’s agenda, but he
has not contacted me. The county surveyor’s recommendation will be to approve
the encroachment and further to tell the board that the improvements made by the
Schuler/Lautner’s are extra fine in quality and no storm water run-off passes
through their drainage swale other than that which comes directly off their own
backyard and ½ the rooftop of their home. This is a very small amount of
run-off and the swale is far larger than necessary to handle that quantity. The
collected run-off in the swale then discharges from the northwest corner of
their property into a well defined and stone lined channel thence directly into
a storm water inlet about 10 or 15 feet inside Mr. Bear’s property but
actually ½ on his and ½ on his other neighbor’s land (on the line).
Additionally, no storm water turns away from this course and travels east across
Mr. Bear’s backyard nor his other neighbor to the east as was represented by
the two men at the previous meeting. In fact, all of Mr. Bear’s backyard water
does exactly the same thing as the Schuler/Lautner run-off except that it flows
through a separate swale totally within Mr. Bear’s yard and separated by a
significant berm of earth planted with trees and shrubs. I will be available for
more details at the meeting.
Hirsch/Stockfleth Construction Drawings are accompanied by a
Notice to Bidders seeking proposals for a project we have discussed many times
before, designed by Bill Butz, PE, Structurepoint, our contract deputy for the
reconstruction. The railroad is well along with their trestle repair and I will
have more details at the meeting. Basically I am asking the board to seek bids
for our part of the job.
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