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Halie Hernandez
From:Christina Lawson <kinglp7@hotmail.com>
Sent:Monday, March 17, 2014 4:40 PM
To:Keith Marvin; Rick Odell
Subject:Oak Trail & Sandy Lake Drainage Plan
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 appreciate your presence on the property to explain the
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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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