SS9402C-CS 961010 he City With A Beautiful Future
P.O. Box 478
Coppell, Texas 75019
214-462-0022
Oad~ 10, ]996
Doug Bisballe, Vice President
Pate Brothers Construction, Inc.
780 West Mansfield Hwy.
Kennedale, TX 76060
Re: Bethel Road Sanitary Sewer Line SS 94-02C
Dear Mr. Bisballe:
Over the past several months the new asphalt overlay on Bethel Road has experienced severe
cracking and failures over the trench line of the sanitary sewer line that was installed by Pate
Brothers on the south side of the road. These failures have created unsafe driving conditions
which has required the City to place temporary asphalt patches over the sink holes in the
pavement. Occasionally, Pate Brothers has sent someone out to perform repairs on the roadway
only to have failures reoccur in the same place. Also, some of the cracks have propagated onto
the north side of the road.
On Tuesday October 8, 1996 Garreth Campbell, Construction Inspector for the City of Coppell,
scheduled a meeting with Bruce Shear of Pate Brothers to walk thru this project to determine
what options were available to resolve the failure problems. Ken Griffin, Garreth and myself
met at the project site for the meeting with Bruce. Bruce never showed up. I hope this was an
oversight on Bruce's part and not an indication that this issue is not a concern to Pate Brothers.
This letter should serve as notice that the City of Coppell is requesting Pate Brothers to
determine what is causing the road to fail. Among other things, this should include TVing the
new sanitary sewer line to determine if there are separations in the line. Pate Brothers should
then submit to the City a solution for the continuing asphalt failures occurring over the sanitary
sewer line.
In the meantime, immediate action is requested to address the surface conditions of areas that
have been repaired. If you have any questions please contact me at (972)304-3679.
Sincerely,
l~lichael A Mart~n, E I T
Assistant City Engineer