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Halie Hernandez
From:Christina Lawson <kinglp7@hotmail.com>
Sent:Tuesday, March 18, 2014 9:27 AM
To:Keith Marvin
Subject:RE: Oak Trail & Sandy Lake Drainage Plan
Keith,
Again, I appreciate your staff meeting to address my concerns.
Verbal promises and verbal "a drainage plan" has been done, does not work.
With the public information act,
I seek an engineering study of Sandy Lake and Oak Trail drainage, as well as whispering hills road
where it meets Sandy Lake Road...
Walter, nor Rick to my knowledge are drainage engineers. You have given, (I have led to believe) on behalf of
the City of Coppell authorization to cut Oak Trail elevation to meet sandy lake - knowing that Oak Trail does
not drain properly.
Keith, you said you had drainage plans and studies...give me a copy.
Send your city secretary name my way, since I take it - you are refusing to provide the information?
Let me know, in writing please...
thank you
christina
Christina Lawson
From: KMarvin@coppelltx.gov
To: kinglp7@hotmail.com
CC: ROdell@coppelltx.gov; ASamaniego@coppelltx.gov
Subject: RE: Oak Trail & Sandy Lake Drainage Plan
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:55:22 +0000
Ms. Lawson,
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I will be out there this morning at 10:00am. City staff will be meeting to discuss your concerns. You are welcome to
participate in the discussions. I have forwarded your request for public information to our City Secretary for processing.
Keith Marvin, P.E.
City of Coppell
972-304-3681
From: kinglp7 [mailto:kinglp7@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:09 AM
To: Keith Marvin
Cc: Rick Odell; Alberto Samaniego
Subject: Re: Oak Trail & Sandy Lake Drainage Plan
Keith, I would appreciate a comprehensive drainage meeting, whereby you, engineer in charge in behalf of the
city, can demonstrate on behalf of the city the public paid drainage plan for road deconstructs of oak trail and
sandy lake, as a property at 101 affected by whispering hills, Sandy lake and oak trail road. Is the lowest point
along Sandy lake road. 101 property has lost top soil and has no means of elevated drainage, nor pump system
in place for flood control. Therefore, sewer and water drainage analysis, with major displacement of soil,
easement or not, I'd the duty of the city for public owned property. When we meet, A copy of city topographic
survey and water drainage engineering of oak trail and sandy lake intersections, for arriving at the grading and
drainage plan, as public funded engineering analysis, is requested under the public information act. Cease the
displacement of rain water from construction site in Sandy lake into 101 oak trail property, as drainage into
easement on oak trail backs up into property...and this water is contaminated. Again, private citizens di not
have a pumping system in hand to combat the heavy flooding of property. Since the statement that you have
analysis for Sandy lake, however need to find oak trail as a part of meeting, I suggest meeting Thursday, if that
gives the city enough time. Please make copies of studies, typography survey, property line survey and any
and all third party engineering by whomever to give Coppell city private property owners the assurance off
drainage plan. If the city of coppell needs registered letter, please advise. With data in hand, comprehensively
addressing oak trail, Sandy lake and whispering hills drainage (101 affected during large rain events)-I would
appreciate a meeting by friday, which should give ample time to collect data, since excavation if oak trail
ingress, egress is as we speak, having major amounts of earth and elevation modification, which will affect 101
property. Upon leaving the meeting, will need a coy of material. Thank you for being a responsible public
employee, having witnessed the flooding events of 101 property yourself, as well as neighbors. Property
Concerns are real, as we are heading into spring rain events and plan needs a review. Prior to final Sandy lake
only drainage plan. I hope you understand and agree. Rick not Tiseo Forman Walter, create the plan, they
follow your city engineering directions...and to my and construction plan, no oak trail plan us in place for earth
movement and water drainage into 101-other than it will run down hill, as we ask know, but not to Sandy lake,
but into private property called 101. Please advise Friday meeting to allow for reports and plans to
comprehensively to be collated and reviewed by your person, prior to meeting.
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From: Keith Marvin <KMarvin@coppelltx.gov>
Date: 03/17/2014 7:17 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: Christina <kinglp7@hotmail.com>
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Cc: Rick Odell <ROdell@coppelltx.gov>,Alberto Samaniego <ASamaniego@coppelltx.gov>
Subject: Re: Oak Trail & Sandy Lake Drainage Plan
We'll be there tomorrow at 10:00am. I'll bring the Sandy Lake plans, but I may need a few days to pull
together the Oak Trail plans.
Keith Marvin
City of Coppell
On Mar 17, 2014, at 6:10 PM, "Christina" <kinglp7@hotmail.com> wrote:
Keith, the city drainage and flooding has caused major erosion to 101 oak trail. With major
engineering changes to one Road (Sandy lake) affects every corner property in the lower side of
Sandy lake (north). 101 property, per city surveyor is the lowest point along Sandy lake, as well
as north side. The city is deficient not to address the flooding issue on 101 and multiple verbal
promise from visual drainage problems deserve solutions. This is much like the debacle of
whispering hills, drainage jumping Sandy lake rd cruising like a river through oak trail for years.
Tomorrow is fine. Please bring engineering plans for drainage of corner, and which address
higher elevation oak trail as a road, with engineering to grade to lower Sandy lake, which
collects and addresses the run off from engineering modification. It is my intention to take
survey. City plan to a civil engineer for comments. I need elevations Keith. I desire solutions as
promised. Thank you, Christina
--- Original Message ---
From: "Keith Marvin" <KMarvin@coppelltx.gov>
Sent: March 17, 2014 5:55 PM
To: "Christina Lawson" <kinglp7@hotmail.com>
Cc: "Rick Odell" <ROdell@coppelltx.gov>, "Michael Garza" <MGarza@coppelltx.gov>, "Alberto
Samaniego" <ASamaniego@coppelltx.gov>
Subject: Re: Oak Trail & Sandy Lake Drainage Plan
Ms. Lawson,
The project currently under construction is Sandy Lake Road. Oak Trail is only being modified
where it ties into Sandy Lake. Drainage problems that exist along Oak Trail are beyond the
scope of the Contractor currently woking on Sandy Lake Road. If the contractor has caused
damage to your property, or any other adjacent property, they will be made to repair the
damage prior to completion of this project.
I am available to meet you at your property to discuss the drainage issues that you have, but I
am limited in my ability to address problems associated with your private property. I will bring
the city's Street Operations Supervisor to discuss what can be done to improve drainage along
Oak Trail.
We are available any time tomorrow or Thursday.
Keith Marvin
City of Coppell
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On Mar 17, 2014, at 4:39 PM, "Christina Lawson" <kinglp7@hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear Keith-today I experienced drainage from a construction site of sandy lake
road, which did not drain on easement, but penetrated the property, past the
easement. The pooling of water is what will happen with a rain event...no
drainage from this property onto sandy lake road, from years of water
erosion...the property is lower than Oak trail and sandy lake
I stopped today (right after lunch) some time ago today and asked Walter from
Tiso and Rick Odell to come to Oak Trail to inform me of the drainage plan for
the corner of 101 Oak Trail and Sandy Lake Road. Rick said he would send
Walter. No one showed.
Saturday, the Verizon cable was cut for the 5th time, and one of the two boxes
on the easement was crushed (both have been - multiple times).
TODAY the Sandy Lake workers purposely, with pumps and large hose, emptied
the muddy water from Sandy Lake to drain onto 101 Oak Trail property
easement, it would not flow North towards 109 Oak Trail, but encroached on the
101 Oak Trail property. ( I have pictures)
WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN - WHEN WE HAVE A MAIN water - rain
EVENT...WATER IN SANDY LAKE MAY DRAIN, BUT WATER OFF OF OAK TRAIL
WILL POOL ON THIS PROPERTY...AS IT CANNOT DRAIN TO SANDY LAKE
ROAD. Water travels the nearest path of runoff.
With Oak Trail (road) higher than the 101 Oak Trail property (even with a cut to
enter into Sandy Lake) - the drainage is considered the 101 property...as water
flow will travel from the center into the road into the property...and then
what? Mr Moss has a broken ditch pipe and he also has experienced erosion
from years of flooding.
109 Oak Trail has a culvert, and the workers cut a hole in Mr Moss asphalt to try
to drain the water event, as well as stick a pipe through the broken culvert, to
drain Oak Trail...as it was pumping into the 101 Oak Trail...and sitting.
If we have a rain event-as we do in the spring, the 101 Oak Trail property is going
to become - AGAIN - the drainage ditch for the city of Coppell. Ask any of the
neighbors, if they would ok pumping water from a construction site onto their
property.
Do not ask me to refer anything to Rick. He basically does not care and is not
respectful to the concerns of people in the middle of this debacle...you are
supervising this project for the city. Walter is a supervisor who can only do or
say so muc
Please get me a copy of the drainage plan for Oak Trail as it meets Sandy Lake. I
will be happy to come to the property, as a matter of public information. I would
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appreciate your presence on the property to explain the plan...as well as
measurement of water flow estimated from Oak Trail and the drainage plan
study.
Time is of the essence....as the cement is being taken up from my drive and the
workers said no plan for drainage is in place for 101 or the Moss 109 drainage
debacle.
Under the Freedom of Informaiton Act, please as chief engineer on the Coppell
project, provide the engineering information and flood control plan for Oak Trail
and Sandy Lake Road - asap.
I have pictures of the flooding of the 101 property from a construction
sight...pumping dirty soil water from Sandy Lake Road which penetrated the
property. It was also captured on cameras, beside my phone.
When I asked them to stop the water penetrating the property and the broken
Verizon box...The workers dug a hole in dennis moss drive in the asphalt to figure
out his drainage pipe is plugged, but also to discover a cement pipe in two
sections..and they did not repair the hole in the drive, stating this is beyond the
scope of work..the drainage issue of Oak Trail.
thank you for your immediate attention....
Respectfully,
Christina Lawson
101 Oak Trail
Coppell Tx 75019
214-632-6708
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