Creekview North-CS 881031 The City With A Beautiful utu e
October 31, 1988
P.O. Box 478
Coppell, Texas 75019
214 - 462 - 0022
Mr. William B. Johnson
409 Meadowcreek Road
Coppell, Texas 75019
RE: Status of Sewer Easement Construction by Creekview Estates
Dear Mr. Johnson:
This letter is in follow-up to your October 25, 1988 letter to Mr.
Ratliff, and our telephone conversation of last week.
As I understand the letter most recently sent to you by Nathan Maiers
and Associates, dated October 24, 1988, was their response to your
response and request to revise their design of your requested creek
bank stabilization. As I understand, originally their design was to
leave the creek bank natural and not to induce other than natural
materials into the creek bank in the area of the eastment. This
original design was accepted by the City Engineer and the Public
Works Department. They additionally had no objection to your request
to stabilize the creek bank in the easement area vis a vis leaving it
in its natural state.
When you requested I look at the situation, some stabilization had
been done and appeared to have deteriorated or failed and/or was
not acceptable to you. With continued liaison with the Development
Inspector Division Of the Department of Public Works, I inquired into
the situation and monitored from a distance the various meetings and
contacts made known to me between you and the Design Engineer, Nathan
Maier and Associates.
My distance was intentional and calculated. As we discussed last
week, as the City Engineer for the City of Coppell, I cannot dictate
to the design of a private licensed engineer, beyond assuring that
the rules, regulations, standards and criteria of the City are met.
In fact, even with retaining a consultant for designing a public
improvement for the City of Coppell, I cannot blatently dictate to
their design without their concurrence. If I were to seal and sign
the design/construction drawings then I would have more latitude on
what I might desire within the design.
Additionally, as I understand this restoration is within an easement
for the sewer line that is on your property. The City's easement is
to operate and maintain a sewer line and not creek bank maintenance.
FORWARDED TO
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